Habitats and adaptations, sentence 7
An adaptation is a feature that helps a living thing survive in its habitat.
Who acts: adaptation, feature, living thing · What happens: be, help, survive · To what, where: feature, habitat
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 (adaptation, feature, living thing), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 adaptation | det |
| 2 | adaptation | adaptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feature | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feature | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feature | det |
| 5 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 helps | nsubj |
| 7 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feature | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 9 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thing | compound |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 survive | nsubj |
| 11 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helps | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 habitat | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 habitat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | habitat | habitat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 survive | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feature | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a adaptation | a feature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | a feature | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | survive | infinitive | a living thing | thing's habitat | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in habitat=Location |
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:7.
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): 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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