--- title: A fish has gills, fins and a smooth shape for water. — Habitats and adaptations · tree and pragmatics description: A fish has gills, fins and a smooth shape for water. Who acts: fish. A sentence of the lesson «Habitats and adaptations» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/4/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Habitats and adaptations](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/) / 4 # Habitats and adaptations, sentence 4 A fish has gills, fins and a smooth shape for water. **Who acts:** fish · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** gills 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 (fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:027-habitats-and-adaptations.lesson:4 # text = A fish has gills, fins and a smooth shape for water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 027-habitats-and-adaptations.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 fins fin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 . . 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 fish | gills and fins and a smooth shape for water | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gill=Patient | 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:world:027-habitats-and-adaptations.lesson:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [Habitats and adaptations, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/3/) - next →: [Habitats and adaptations, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/)