Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 14

Coral reefs are built by tiny animals called coral polyps that make hard homes of limestone, and tiny algae living inside the coral give it food and colour.

Who acts: tiny animals, tiny algae · What happens: build, call, make, live, give · To what, where: Coral reefs, coral polyps, hard homes, coral, food, reef · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» 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 (tiny animals, tiny algae), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coral	coral	NOUN	_	2 reefs	compound
2	reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 built	aux:pass
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 animals	case
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	obl
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 animals	acl
9	coral	coral	NOUN	_	10 polyps	compound
10	polyps	polyp	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 called	xcomp
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 make	nsubj
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animals	acl:relcl
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 homes	amod
14	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 limestone	case
16	limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 homes	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 algae	amod
20	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 give	nsubj
21	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 algae	acl
22	inside	inside	ADP	_	24 coral	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coral	det
24	coral	coral	NOUN	_	21 living	obl
25	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 make	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 colour	cc
29	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 food	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	build	present · passive	tiny animals	Coral reefs			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
2	call	participle	tiny animals not said here	coral polyps			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	tiny animals	hard homes of limestone			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product
4	live	gerund	tiny algae not said here			the coral	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside coral=Location
5	give	present	tiny algae	food and colour	reef		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient food=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, 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:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.lesson:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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.

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