Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 12

People say the Great Barrier Reef is the only living thing you can see from space, but it is made of countless living things, and astronauts can see cities and roads too.

Who acts: People, Great Barrier Reef, you, astronauts · What happens: say, be, see, make, live · To what, where: only living thing, space, reef, cities · 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 (People, Great Barrier Reef, you, astronauts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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.

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