--- title: Every living thing is fitted to its own habitat, so a cactus is buil… — What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitti… · tree and pragmatics description: Every living thing is fitted to its own habitat, so a cactus is built for dry sand and a water lily for a still pond, and swapping them would kill both. Who acts: swapping. A sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/) / 2 # What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 2 Every living thing is fitted to its own habitat, so a cactus is built for dry sand and a water lily for a still pond, and swapping them would kill both. **Who acts:** swapping · **What happens:** fit, build, swap, kill · **To what, where:** living thing, own habitat, cactus, sand, both This is a sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» of the biology 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 (swapping), 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:2 # text = Every living thing is fitted to its own habitat, so a cactus is built for dry sand and a water lily for a still pond, and swapping them would kill both. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 fitted fit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 habitat habitat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cactus cactus NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 swapping swap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 csubj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 33 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fit** | present · passive | | every living thing | | | | to thing's own habitat *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to habitat=Goal | | 2 | **build** | present · passive | | a cactus | | | | for dry sand and a water lily for a pond | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for sand=Asset | | 3 | **swap** | gerund | | sand | | | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **kill** | would | swapping | both | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=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](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:2`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/0/) - next →: [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/)