Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 0

Most trees die if you pour salty sea water on their roots, but mangroves grow with their feet in it, along warm tropical coasts where the tide comes in and out twice a day.

Who acts: Most trees, you, mangroves, tide · What happens: die, pour, grow, come · To what, where: salty sea water, roots, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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 (Most trees, you, mangroves, tide), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 pour	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pour	nsubj
6	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 die	advcl
7	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	compound
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pour	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 roots	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 roots	nmod:poss
12	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pour	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grow	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 grow	cc
15	mangroves	mangrove	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grow	nsubj
16	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 die	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grow	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grow	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 coasts	punct
23	along	along	ADP	_	26 coasts	case
24	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 coasts	amod
25	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 coasts	amod
26	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grow	obl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 comes	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tide	det
29	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 comes	nsubj
30	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 coasts	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADV	_	30 comes	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 out	cc
33	out	out	ADV	_	31 in	conj
34	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 day	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 day	det
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 comes	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 die	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Most trees					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	pour a condition, not said to happen	present	you	salty sea water	trees's roots			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	grow	present	mangroves		water		with trees's feet; along warm tropical coasts	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
4	come	present	the tide			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:0.

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 ×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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