Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 2

The seashore is a harder home, because twice a day the tide goes out and leaves rockpool animals in sun, wind and beaks: limpets clamp down, anemones fold into blobs of jelly and crabs hide under weed.

Who acts: seashore, tide, limpets, anemones · What happens: be, go out, leave, clamp down, fold, hide · To what, where: harder home, rockpool animals, sun, blobs, weed

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 (seashore, tide, limpets, anemones), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seashore	det
2	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 home	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 home	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 home	det
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 home	amod
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 goes	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 goes	mark
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 day	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 goes	obl:unmarked
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tide	det
13	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 goes	nsubj
14	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 home	advcl
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 goes	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 leaves	cc
17	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 goes	conj
18	rockpool	rockpool	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 animals	compound
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 leaves	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 sun	case
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leaves	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wind	punct
23	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sun	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 beaks	cc
25	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wind	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 clamp	punct
27	limpets	limpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 clamp	nsubj
28	clamp	clamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 leaves	conj
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 clamp	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fold	punct
31	anemones	anemone	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fold	nsubj
32	fold	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 clamp	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	34 blobs	case
34	blobs	blob	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fold	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 jelly	case
36	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blobs	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 crabs	cc
38	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 blobs	conj
39	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fold	ccomp
40	under	under	ADP	_	41 weed	case
41	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hide	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 home	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the seashore	a harder home				tree rules
2	go out	present	the tide			day	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	present	the tide not said here	rockpool animals	sun and wind and beaks			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme in sun=Location
4	clamp down	present	limpets					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	fold	present	anemones		blobs of jelly and crabs			tree rules
6	hide	present	anemones not said here		weed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under weed=Location

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:2.

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 ×5, R6-punct-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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