Habitats and adaptations, sentence 13
Many Arctic animals have small ears, which lose less heat.
Who acts: Many Arctic animals, small ears · What happens: have, lose · To what, where: small ears, less heat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Habitats and adaptations» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many Arctic animals, small ears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animals | amod |
| 2 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animals | amod |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ears | amod |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lose | nsubj |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ears | acl:relcl |
| 10 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 heat | amod |
| 11 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Many Arctic animals | small ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | present | small ears | less heat | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:027-habitats-and-adaptations.lesson:13.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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