Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 13
Many young reef fish grow up safely among mangrove roots, so where mangroves are cut down, some reefs have fewer fish.
Who acts: Many young reef fish, reefs · What happens: grow up, cut down, have · To what, where: mangrove roots, mangroves, fewer fish
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 (Many young reef fish, reefs), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fish | amod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fish | amod |
| 3 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fish | compound |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 grow | compound:prt |
| 7 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 5 grow | advmod |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 roots | case |
| 9 | mangrove | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roots | compound |
| 10 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 cut | advmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 cut | advmod |
| 14 | mangroves | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cut | aux:pass |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 have | advcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 cut | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 reefs | det |
| 20 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | conj |
| 22 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 fish | amod |
| 23 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | present | Many young reef fish | mangrove roots | safely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among root=Location | |||
| 2 | cut down | present · passive | mangroves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | have | present | some reefs | fewer fish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
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:13.
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 ×2, 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.
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