Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 15

Not all corals live in warm water: some reefs grow in cold, dark water deep down, for example off Norway, and some are thousands of years old.

Who acts: corals, reefs · What happens: not live, grow, be · To what, where: warm water, cold dark 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 (corals, reefs), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 live	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 corals	det
3	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 grow	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 reefs	det
10	reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grow	nsubj
11	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 live	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 water	case
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 water	punct
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grow	obl
17	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 deep	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 example	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 example	case
21	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grow	obl
22	off	off	ADP	_	23 Norway	case
23	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 grow	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 old	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 old	cc
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 thousands	det
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 old	cop
28	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 old	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 years	case
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 thousands	nmod
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 live	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not live	present	all corals	warm water		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location
2	grow	present	some reefs	cold dark water	for example; off Norway	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location
3	is	present	all corals not said here		some thousands of years obl; old property	tree rules

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:15.

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, R7-rel-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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