Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 0
A coral reef looks like coloured rock, but it is built by billions of tiny animals called polyps, cousins of jellyfish, that make limestone skeletons and keep tiny algae inside their bodies to share food made from sunlight.
Who acts: coral reef, billions, tiny animals · What happens: look, build, call, make, keep, share · To what, where: reef, polyps, limestone skeletons, tiny algae, bodies, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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, billions, tiny animals), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 reef | det |
| 2 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reef | amod |
| 3 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 6 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rock | amod |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 built | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 built | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 built | aux:pass |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looks | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 billions | case |
| 14 | billions | billion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 built | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 animals | case |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 animals | amod |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 billions | nmod |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 animals | acl |
| 19 | polyps | polyp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 called | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cousins | punct |
| 21 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 billions | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 jellyfish | case |
| 23 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cousins | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 make | nsubj |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 animals | acl:relcl |
| 27 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 skeletons | compound |
| 28 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 make | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 keep | cc |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | conj |
| 31 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 algae | amod |
| 32 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 keep | obj |
| 33 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 35 bodies | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 keep | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 share | mark |
| 37 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 keep | advcl |
| 38 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 share | obj |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 food | acl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 sunlight | case |
| 41 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | 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 | look | present | a coral reef | like coloured rock | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | build | present · passive | billions of tiny animals and cousins of jellyfish | reef | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | tiny animals not said here | polyps | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | present | tiny animals | limestone skeletons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skeleton=Product | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | tiny animals not said here | tiny algae | algae's bodies | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent alga=Theme inside body=Location | |||
| 6 | share | to-infinitive | tiny animals not said here | food | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make | participle | food not said here | sunlight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from sunlight=Material |
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:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.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 ×3, 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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