--- title: A cactus has thick, waxy, spiny stems that store water for the deser… — What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitti… · tree and pragmatics description: A cactus has thick, waxy, spiny stems that store water for the desert, while a water lily has big flat leaves that float on a pond. Who acts: cactus, thick waxy spiny stems, water lily, big flat leaves. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cactus, thick waxy spiny stems, water lily, big flat leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:11 # text = A cactus has thick, waxy, spiny stems that store water for the desert, while a water lily has big flat leaves that float on a pond. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cactus cactus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 waxy waxy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 spiny spiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj 11 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a cactus | thick waxy spiny stems | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient | | 2 | **store** | present | thick waxy spiny stems | water | | | | for the desert | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | a water lily | big flat leaves | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 4 | **float** | present | big flat leaves | | | a pond | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pond=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:11`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/10/) - next →: [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/)