Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 8
The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is about 2,300 km long and is the largest structure built by living things.
Who acts: Great Barrier Reef · What happens: be, build · To what, where: largest structure
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 (Great Barrier Reef), 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 | 4 Reef | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Reef | amod |
| 3 | Barrier | barrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Reef | compound |
| 4 | Reef | reef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 long | nsubj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 Australia | case |
| 6 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Reef | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 2,300 | advmod |
| 9 | 2,300 | 2,300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 km | nummod |
| 10 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 long | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 structure | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 structure | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 structure | det |
| 15 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 structure | amod |
| 16 | structure | structure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 long | conj |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 structure | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 19 | living | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 built | obl:agent |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Great Barrier Reef off Australia | 2,300 km obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Great Barrier Reef off Australia not said here | the largest structure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | build | participle | the largest structure not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:8.
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): 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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