Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 0

A coral reef is a busy town where many animals make deals: you help me and I help you, like two friends where one carries the shopping and the other opens the doors.

Who acts: coral reef, many animals, you, I, one, other · What happens: be, make, help, carry, open · To what, where: busy town, deals, me, you, shopping, doors

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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 reef, many animals, you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

pos

teacher

changed act=assert, voice=narrator

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.

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