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title: Plants and animals are adapted to their climate, like polar bears to… — Climate zones · tree and pragmatics
description: Plants and animals are adapted to their climate, like polar bears to the Arctic and camels to the desert. Who acts: Plants. A sentence of the lesson «Climate zones» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Climate zones, sentence 12

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Plants and animals are adapted to their climate, like polar bears to the Arctic and camels to the desert.

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**Who acts:** Plants · **What happens:** adapt, acclimate · **To what, where:** Plants, climate

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate zones» 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 (Plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:016-climate-zones.lesson:12
# text = Plants and animals are adapted to their climate, like polar bears to the Arctic and camels to the desert.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 016-climate-zones.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): no change
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adapt** | present · passive |  | Plants and animals |  |  |  | to Plants's climate *goal*; like polar bears to the Arctic to the desert and camels | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to climate=Goal |
| 2 | **acclimate** |  | Plants *= plant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:world:016-climate-zones.lesson:12`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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