Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 3

Walk on a white tropical beach and much of the sand under your feet may have passed through a parrotfish, which crunches coral with its beak and poops out fine sand.

Who acts: you, parrotfish · What happens: walk, pass, crunch, poop out · To what, where: white tropical beach, parrotfish, coral, fine sand

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 (you, parrotfish), 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	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	6 beach	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beach	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beach	amod
5	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beach	amod
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 much	cc
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beach	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sand	det
11	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 much	nmod
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 feet	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feet	nmod:poss
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sand	nmod
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 passed	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 passed	aux
17	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Walk	conj
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 parrotfish	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 parrotfish	det
20	parrotfish	parrotfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crunches	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 crunches	nsubj
23	crunches	crunch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 parrotfish	acl:relcl
24	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crunches	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 beak	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 beak	nmod:poss
27	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crunches	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 poops	cc
29	poops	poop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 crunches	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 poops	compound:prt
31	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sand	amod
32	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poops	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here		a white tropical beach		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Trajectory
2	pass	may · perfect	you not said here		a parrotfish		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through parrotfish=Location
3	crunch	present	a parrotfish	coral		with coral's beak	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent coral=Patient with beak=Instrument
4	poop out	present	a parrotfish not said here	fine sand			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:3.

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. 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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