Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 1

Reefs are the busiest neighbourhoods in the sea: a clownfish lives in a stinging anemone, a little cleaner wrasse runs a cleaning station for big fish, and parrotfish crunch coral and turn it into white sand.

Who acts: Reefs, clownfish, little cleaner wrasse, parrotfish · What happens: be, live, sting, run, crunch, turn · To what, where: busiest neighbourhoods, sea, stinging anemone, cleaning station, coral, reef

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 (Reefs, clownfish, little cleaner wrasse, parrotfish), 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	Reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 neighbourhoods	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 neighbourhoods	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighbourhoods	det
4	busiest	busy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 neighbourhoods	amod
5	neighbourhoods	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neighbourhoods	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 lives	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 clownfish	det
11	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lives	nsubj
12	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 neighbourhoods	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 anemone	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 anemone	det
15	stinging	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 anemone	amod
16	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lives	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 runs	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wrasse	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wrasse	amod
20	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wrasse	compound
21	wrasse	wrasse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 runs	nsubj
22	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lives	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 station	det
24	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 station	compound
25	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 runs	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 fish	case
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fish	amod
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 station	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crunch	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crunch	cc
31	parrotfish	parrotfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crunch	nsubj
32	crunch	crunch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 runs	conj
33	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crunch	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 turn	cc
35	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 crunch	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 turn	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 sand	case
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sand	amod
39	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turn	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 neighbourhoods	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Reefs	the busiest neighbourhoods	the sea		tree rules
2	live	present	a clownfish		a stinging anemone		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anemone=Location
3	sting	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	run	present	a little cleaner wrasse	a cleaning station		for big fish	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent station=Product for fish=Beneficiary
5	crunch	present	parrotfish	coral			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coral=Patient
6	turn	present	parrotfish not said here	reef	white sand		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into sand=Trajectory

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:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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