The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 1
The coral that looks like rocks and plants is really made of tiny animals, related to jellyfish, that build stone skeletons and share their home with tiny algae that make food from sunlight.
Who acts: coral, tiny animals, tiny algae · What happens: look, make, build, share · To what, where: coral, stone skeletons, home, food, sunlight
This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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 (coral, tiny animals, tiny algae), 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 coral | det |
| 2 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 coral | acl:relcl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 rocks | case |
| 6 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looks | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plants | cc |
| 8 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rocks | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 animals | case |
| 13 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 animals | amod |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 related | punct |
| 16 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 animals | amod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 jellyfish | case |
| 18 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 related | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 skeletons | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 build | nsubj |
| 21 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 animals | acl:relcl |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 skeletons | compound |
| 23 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 build | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 share | cc |
| 25 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 build | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 home | nmod:poss |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 share | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 algae | case |
| 29 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 algae | amod |
| 30 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 share | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 make | nsubj |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 algae | acl:relcl |
| 33 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 sunlight | case |
| 35 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the coral | like rocks and plants | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | the coral | of tiny animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | build | present | tiny animals | stone skeletons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skeleton=Product | ||||
| 4 | share | present | tiny animals not said here | skeletons's home | with tiny algae | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | present | tiny algae | food | sunlight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material |
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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:1.
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 ×2. 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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