Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 4

Corals are animals, not plants or rocks: colonies of tiny polyps that build hard skeletons of limestone and at night stretch out tentacles to catch tiny food.

Who acts: Corals, tiny polyps · What happens: be, build, stretch out, catch · To what, where: animals, hard skeletons, tentacles, tiny food

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, tiny polyps), 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	Corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 animals	cop
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 plants	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 plants	advmod
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 animals	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 rocks	cc
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plants	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 colonies	punct
10	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 animals	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 polyps	case
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 polyps	amod
13	polyps	polyp	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 colonies	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 build	nsubj
15	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 polyps	acl:relcl
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 skeletons	amod
17	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 build	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 limestone	case
19	limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skeletons	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stretch	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 night	case
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stretch	obl
23	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 build	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 stretch	compound:prt
25	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stretch	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 catch	mark
27	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stretch	advcl
28	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 food	amod
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 catch	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 animals	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	Corals	animals and plants or rocks		tree rules
2	build	present	tiny polyps	hard skeletons of limestone		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skeleton=Product
3	stretch out	present	tiny polyps not said here	tentacles	night	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tentacle=Patient
4	catch	to-infinitive	tiny polyps not said here	tiny food		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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:4.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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