Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 2
If the water gets too hot, the corals push their algae out and turn white like bone; this is bleaching, and if the heat lasts too long the coral starves.
Who acts: water, corals, this, heat, coral · What happens: get, push out, turn, bleach, last, starve · To what, where: algae
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 (water, corals, this, heat), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 gets | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 hot | advmod |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gets | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 push | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corals | det |
| 9 | corals | coral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 push | nsubj |
| 10 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | parataxis |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 algae | nmod:poss |
| 12 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 push | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 push | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turn | cc |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 push | conj |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 turn | xcomp |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 bone | case |
| 18 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 white | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 bleaching | punct |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 bleaching | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bleaching | aux |
| 22 | bleaching | bleach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gets | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 starves | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 starves | cc |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 lasts | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 heat | det |
| 27 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lasts | nsubj |
| 28 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 starves | advcl |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 long | advmod |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 lasts | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 coral | det |
| 32 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 starves | nsubj |
| 33 | starves | starve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bleaching | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the water | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | push out | present | the corals | polyps's algae | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | the corals not said here | white property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bleach | present · progressive | this | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | last a condition, not said to happen | present | the heat | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | starve | present | the coral | 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:2.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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