Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 3

Mangroves are also a nursery for young fish and a wall against storms: their tangled roots break the waves and hold the soil, like a sponge and a fence in one.

Who acts: Mangroves, tangled roots · What happens: be, tangle, break, hold · To what, where: nursery, waves, soil

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 (Mangroves, tangled roots), 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	Mangroves	mangrove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nursery	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 nursery	cop
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 nursery	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nursery	det
5	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 fish	case
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nursery	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wall	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wall	det
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fish	conj
12	against	against	ADP	_	13 storms	case
13	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wall	nmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 break	punct
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 roots	nmod:poss
16	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 roots	amod
17	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 break	nsubj
18	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 nursery	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 waves	det
20	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 break	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hold	cc
22	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 break	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 soil	det
24	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hold	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sponge	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 sponge	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 sponge	det
28	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hold	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fence	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fence	det
31	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sponge	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 one	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hold	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 nursery	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mangroves	a nursery	for young fish and a wall against storms	tree rules
2	tangle	participle				tree rules
3	break	present	fish's tangled roots	the waves		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wave=Patient
4	hold	present	fish's tangled roots not said here	the soil	like a sponge and a fence; in one	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent soil=Theme in one=Location

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:3.

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 ×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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