Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 16
The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is the biggest coral reef system in the world, about 2,300 kilometres long, made of thousands of reefs and islands.
Who acts: Great Barrier Reef · What happens: be, make · To what, where: biggest reef system, world
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 (Great Barrier Reef), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Reef | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Reef | amod |
| 3 | Barrier | barrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Reef | compound |
| 4 | Reef | reef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 system | nsubj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 Australia | case |
| 6 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Reef | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 system | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 system | det |
| 9 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 system | amod |
| 10 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reef | amod |
| 11 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 system | compound |
| 12 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 system | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kilometres | punct |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 2,300 | advmod |
| 18 | 2,300 | 2,300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 kilometres | nummod |
| 19 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 long | obl |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 system | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 long | punct |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 system | acl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 thousands | case |
| 24 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 reefs | case |
| 26 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 thousands | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 islands | cc |
| 28 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 reefs | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 system | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Great Barrier Reef off Australia | the biggest reef system | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | participle | the biggest reef system not said here | of thousands of reefs and islands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:16.
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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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