Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 6
When water gets too warm, corals push out their algae and turn white, which is called bleaching; big bleaching events have hit the Great Barrier Reef many times since 1998.
Who acts: water, corals, big bleaching events · What happens: get, push out, turn, call, bleach, hit · To what, where: algae, Great Barrier Reef · Speech: someone speaks here
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, big bleaching events), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 gets | mark |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 push | advcl |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 warm | advmod |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gets | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 push | punct |
| 7 | corals | coral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 push | nsubj |
| 8 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 push | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 algae | nmod:poss |
| 11 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 push | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turn | cc |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 push | conj |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 turn | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 turn | conj |
| 19 | bleaching | bleach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 called | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 hit | punct |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 events | amod |
| 22 | bleaching | bleaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 events | compound |
| 23 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hit | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hit | aux |
| 25 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 push | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Reef | det |
| 27 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Reef | amod |
| 28 | Barrier | barrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Reef | compound |
| 29 | Reef | reef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hit | obj |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 times | amod |
| 31 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hit | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | since | since | ADP | _ | 33 1998 | case |
| 33 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 hit | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 push | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | water | warm property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | push out | present | corals | polyps's algae | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | corals not said here | white property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | bleach | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | hit | present · perfect | big bleaching events | the Great Barrier Reef | since 1998; time | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reef=Co-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:6.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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