Habitats and adaptations, sentence 3

A polar bear has thick fat, dense fur and black skin under its pale fur; it has small ears and wide feet for walking on snow.

Who acts: polar bear, fat, small ears · What happens: have, walk · To what, where: thick fat, small ears, snow

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 (polar bear, fat, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bear	det
2	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bear	amod
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fat	amod
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fur	punct
8	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fur	amod
9	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fat	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 skin	cc
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 skin	amod
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fat	conj
13	under	under	ADP	_	16 fur	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fur	nmod:poss
15	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fur	amod
16	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skin	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ears	amod
21	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 has	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 feet	cc
23	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feet	amod
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ears	conj
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 walking	mark
26	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 ears	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 snow	case
28	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 walking	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a polar bear	thick fat and dense fur and black skin under fat's pale fur		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient
2	have	present	fat	small ears and wide feet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
3	walk	gerund	small ears and wide feet not said here		snow	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on snow=Trajectory

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:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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