Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 4

Mangroves are trees that grow in salty water along tropical coasts, and some push salt out through their leaves, where you can see salt crystals.

Who acts: Mangroves, trees, some, you · What happens: be, grow, push out, see · To what, where: trees, salty water, salt, leaves, salt crystals

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, trees, some, you), 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	3 trees	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trees	cop
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trees	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 coasts	case
10	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coasts	amod
11	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 push	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 push	cc
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 push	nsubj
15	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	conj
16	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 push	obj
17	out	out	ADV	_	15 push	advmod
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 leaves	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 leaves	nmod:poss
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 push	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 see	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 leaves	acl:relcl
26	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crystals	compound
27	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trees	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mangroves	trees			tree rules
2	grow	present	trees		salty water	along tropical coasts	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location
3	push out	present	some	salt	mangroves's leaves	out property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent salt=Theme through leaf=Trajectory
4	see	can	you	salt crystals			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crystal=Stimulus

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:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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