Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 10

Parrotfish scrape algae off coral with beak-like teeth, grind up coral rock and pass it out as fine sand, and one large parrotfish can make hundreds of kilograms of sand a year.

Who acts: Parrotfish, one large parrotfish · What happens: scrape, grind up, pass out, make · To what, where: algae, coral rock, rock, hundreds

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 (Parrotfish, one large 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	Parrotfish	parrotfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scrape	nsubj
2	scrape	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scrape	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	5 coral	case
5	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scrape	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 teeth	case
7	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 beak	punct
9	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 teeth	amod
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scrape	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grind	punct
12	grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 scrape	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 grind	compound:prt
14	coral	coral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rock	amod
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grind	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pass	cc
17	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grind	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pass	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	17 pass	compound:prt
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 sand	case
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sand	amod
22	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pass	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 parrotfish	nummod
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 parrotfish	amod
27	parrotfish	parrotfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 scrape	conj
30	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 kilograms	case
32	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hundreds	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 sand	case
34	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kilograms	nmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 year	det
36	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obl:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 scrape	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scrape	present	Parrotfish	algae		off coral; with like teeth	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient with tooth=Instrument
2	grind up	present	Parrotfish not said here	coral rock			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient
3	pass out	present	Parrotfish not said here	rock		as fine sand	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	make	can	one large parrotfish	hundreds of kilograms of sand	year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hundred=Product

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:10.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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