Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 11
The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is the largest coral reef system on Earth, made of thousands of separate reefs.
Who acts: Great Barrier Reef · What happens: be, make · To what, where: largest reef system, Earth
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 (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 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 system | amod |
| 10 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reef | compound |
| 11 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 system | compound |
| 12 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Earth | case |
| 14 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 system | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 system | acl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thousands | case |
| 18 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 reefs | case |
| 20 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 reefs | amod |
| 21 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thousands | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 system | 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 | is a | present | the Great Barrier Reef off Australia | the largest reef system | Earth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | participle | the largest reef system not said here | of thousands of separate reefs | 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:172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams.lesson:11.
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 ×1, 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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