Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 5

Coral reefs grow in warm, clear, shallow water, where the tiny algae living inside the polyps get enough sunlight to make food.

Who acts: Coral reefs, tiny algae · What happens: grow, live, get, make · To what, where: warm clear shallow water, polyps, enough sunlight, 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 (Coral reefs, tiny algae), 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	Coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reefs	compound
2	reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	10 water	case
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warm	punct
7	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clear	punct
9	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 get	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 algae	det
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 algae	amod
15	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 get	nsubj
16	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 algae	acl
17	inside	inside	ADP	_	19 polyps	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 polyps	det
19	polyps	polyp	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 living	obl
20	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
21	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sunlight	amod
22	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 make	mark
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 get	advcl
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow	present	Coral reefs		warm clear shallow water	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location
2	live	gerund	the tiny algae not said here		the polyps	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside polyp=Location
3	get	present	the tiny algae	enough sunlight		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunlight=Stimulus
4	make	to-infinitive	the tiny algae not said here	food		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

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:5.

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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