Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 17

Seaweeds are algae with no roots, only a holdfast gripping the rock, and bladder wrack's air bubbles lift it towards the light when the tide is in.

Who acts: Seaweeds, holdfast, air bubbles, tide · What happens: be, grip, lift · To what, where: algae, rock, light

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 (Seaweeds, holdfast, air bubbles, tide), 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	Seaweeds	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 algae	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 algae	cop
3	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 roots	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 roots	det
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 algae	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 holdfast	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 holdfast	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 holdfast	det
10	holdfast	holdfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 algae	conj
11	gripping	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 holdfast	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rock	det
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gripping	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lift	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lift	cc
16	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wrack	compound
17	wrack	wrack	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bubbles	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 wrack	case
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bubbles	compound
20	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lift	nsubj
21	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 algae	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lift	obj
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	25 light	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 light	det
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lift	obl
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 in	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tide	det
28	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 in	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 in	cop
30	in	in	ADV	_	21 lift	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 algae	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	Seaweeds	algae and a holdfast		with no roots	tree rules
2	grip	gerund	a holdfast not said here	the rock			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Experiencer
3	lift	present	bladder wrack's air bubbles	rock	the light		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme towards light=Destination
4	is	present	the tide			in property	tree rules

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:17.

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): no change. 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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