Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 7

Corals are tiny animals called polyps, related to jellyfish, that build limestone skeletons and keep algae inside that make food from sunlight, so reef corals need clear, sunny, shallow water.

Who acts: Corals, tiny animals, polyps, algae, reef corals · What happens: be, call, build, keep, make, need · To what, where: tiny animals, polyps, limestone skeletons, algae, food, sunlight · 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 (Corals, tiny animals, polyps, algae), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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