The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 4
Coral reefs cover less than 1 per cent of the ocean floor but are home to about a quarter of all sea fish species.
Who acts: Coral reefs · What happens: cover, be · To what, where: 1 per cent
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 reefs), 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 | Coral | coral | NOUN | _ | 2 reefs | compound |
| 2 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cover | nsubj |
| 3 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 1 | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 less | fixed |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 cent | nummod |
| 7 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cent | compound |
| 8 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cover | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 floor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 floor | det |
| 11 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floor | compound |
| 12 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cent | nmod |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 quarter | cc |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 quarter | cop |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 quarter | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 quarter | case |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 quarter | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 quarter | det |
| 19 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cover | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 species | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 species | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fish | compound |
| 23 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 species | compound |
| 24 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 quarter | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cover | 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 | cover | present | Coral reefs | 1 per cent of the ocean floor | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cent=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Coral reefs not said here | to a quarter; of all fish species; about, home 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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:4.
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, R7-rel-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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