Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 7

Parrotfish bite algae off coral with beak-like teeth and grind up bits of coral; one big parrotfish can make hundreds of kilos of sand a year.

Who acts: Parrotfish, one big parrotfish · What happens: bite, grind up, make · To what, where: algae, bits, hundreds

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 (Parrotfish, one big 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	Parrotfish	parrotfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bite	nsubj
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	5 coral	case
5	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bite	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 teeth	case
7	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 teeth	amod
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grind	cc
12	grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bite	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 grind	compound:prt
14	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grind	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 coral	case
16	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bits	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 make	punct
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 parrotfish	nummod
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 parrotfish	amod
20	parrotfish	parrotfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 make	aux
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bite	conj
23	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 make	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 kilos	case
25	kilos	kilo	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hundreds	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 sand	case
27	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kilos	nmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 year	det
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bite	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Parrotfish	algae		off coral; with like teeth	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent alga=Patient with tooth=Instrument
2	grind up	present	Parrotfish not said here	bits of coral			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
3	make	can	one big parrotfish	hundreds of kilos of sand	year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hundred=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:7.

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): R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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