Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 10
On a few nights a year many corals release tiny pink bundles of eggs and sperm into the water at the same time, like an underwater snowstorm.
Who acts: many corals · What happens: release · To what, where: tiny pink bundles, water
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 (many corals), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 nights | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nights | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nights | amod |
| 4 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 release | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nights | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 corals | amod |
| 8 | corals | coral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 release | nsubj |
| 9 | release | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bundles | amod |
| 11 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bundles | amod |
| 12 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 release | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 eggs | case |
| 14 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bundles | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sperm | cc |
| 16 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eggs | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 release | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 release | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 snowstorm | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 snowstorm | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 snowstorm | det |
| 27 | underwater | underwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 snowstorm | compound |
| 28 | snowstorm | snowstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 release | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 release | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | present | many corals | tiny pink bundles of eggs and sperm | the water | night; time | like a underwater snowstorm | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer bundle=Source |
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:10.
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.
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