The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 9

Corals are tiny animals called polyps that build limestone skeletons; algae living inside them make food from sunlight and share it.

Who acts: Corals, tiny animals, polyps, algae · What happens: be, call, build, live, make, share · To what, where: tiny animals, polyps, limestone skeletons, food, sunlight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Corals, tiny animals, polyps, 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	Corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 animals	acl
6	polyps	polyp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 called	xcomp
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 build	nsubj
8	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 polyps	acl:relcl
9	limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skeletons	compound
10	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 build	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 algae	punct
12	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 make	nsubj
13	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 algae	acl
14	inside	inside	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 living	obl
16	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	conj
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 sunlight	case
19	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 share	cc
21	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 make	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 share	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 animals	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Corals	tiny animals			tree rules
2	call	participle	tiny animals not said here	polyps			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	build	present	polyps	limestone skeletons			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skeleton=Product
4	live	gerund	algae not said here			inside algae = alga	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside they=Location
5	make	present	algae	food	sunlight		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material
6	share	present	algae not said here	food			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:9.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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