Habitats and adaptations, sentence 16
Fish have gills to take oxygen from water and a smooth shape to swim easily.
Who acts: Fish · What happens: have, take, swim · To what, where: gills, oxygen, water
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 (Fish), 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 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gills | acl |
| 6 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shape | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shape | det |
| 11 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shape | amod |
| 12 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 swim | mark |
| 14 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 shape | acl |
| 15 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 14 swim | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | Fish | gills | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gill=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Fish not said here | oxygen | water and a smooth shape | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme from water=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | swim | to-infinitive | Fish not said here | easily property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:16.
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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