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title: An adaptation is a feature that helps a living thing survive in its… — Habitats and adaptations · tree and pragmatics
description: An adaptation is a feature that helps a living thing survive in its habitat. Who acts: adaptation, feature, living thing. 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.
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# Habitats and adaptations, sentence 7

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An adaptation is a feature that helps a living thing survive in its habitat.

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**Who acts:** adaptation, feature, living thing · **What happens:** be, help, survive · **To what, where:** feature, habitat

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:027-habitats-and-adaptations.lesson:7
# text = An adaptation is a feature that helps a living thing survive in its habitat.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adaptation	adaptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	habitat	habitat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | 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 |

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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: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.

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

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