Habitats and adaptations, sentence 14
Many desert animals, like the fennec fox, have big ears that help them lose heat.
Who acts: Many desert animals, big ears, ears · What happens: have, help, lose · To what, where: big ears, ears, 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 desert animals, big ears, 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 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animals | compound |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fox | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 fox | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 7 | fennec | fennec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fox | compound |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animals | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 animals | punct |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ears | amod |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 help | nsubj |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ears | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 help | xcomp |
| 17 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lose | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Many desert animals like the fennec fox | big ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | present | big ears | ears = ear | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | infinitive | ears = ear not said here | 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:14.
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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