Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 0

A coral feels like stone, but it is a city of tiny animals called polyps, each like a little sea anemone, and each builds a cup of limestone around itself; millions of cups stacked over thousands of years make a reef.

Who acts: coral, tiny animals, each · What happens: feel, be, call, build, stack, make · To what, where: city, polyps, cup, cups, thousands, millions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams» 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 (coral, tiny animals, each), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coral	det
2	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	nsubj
3	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 stone	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 city	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 city	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 city	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 city	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 animals	case
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 animals	amod
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 city	nmod
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 animals	acl
16	polyps	polyp	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 each	punct
18	each	each	PRON	PronType=Tot	16 polyps	appos
19	like	like	ADP	_	23 anemone	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 anemone	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 anemone	amod
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 anemone	compound
23	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 each	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 builds	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 builds	cc
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 builds	nsubj
27	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 city	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cup	det
29	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 builds	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 limestone	case
31	limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cup	nmod
32	around	around	ADP	_	33 itself	case
33	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 builds	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 feels	punct
35	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 make	nsubj:pass
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 cups	case
37	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 millions	nmod
38	stacked	stack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 cups	acl
39	over	over	ADP	_	40 thousands	case
40	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 stacked	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 years	case
42	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 thousands	nmod
43	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feels	parataxis
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 reef	det
45	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 make	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feels	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	present	a coral			like stone	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like stone=Theme
2	is a	present	coral	a city		of tiny animals	tree rules
3	call	participle	tiny animals not said here	polyps			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	build	present	each	a cup of limestone		around coral	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cup=Product
5	stack	participle		cups not said here	thousands of years		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over thousand=Destination
6	make	present · passive		millions of cups			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary reef=Product

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:172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams.lesson:0.

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 ×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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