--- title: Coral reefs are built by tiny animals called coral polyps that make… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics description: Coral reefs are built by tiny animals called coral polyps that make hard homes of limestone, and tiny algae living inside the coral give it food and colour. Who acts: tiny animals, tiny algae. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny animals, tiny algae), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.lesson:14 # text = Coral reefs are built by tiny animals called coral polyps that make hard homes of limestone, and tiny algae living inside the coral give it food and colour. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1 1 Coral coral NOUN NN _ 2 compound _ _ 2 reefs reef NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 coral coral NOUN NN _ 10 compound _ _ 10 polyps polyp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 xcomp _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 limestone limestone NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 21 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ _ 22 inside inside ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 coral coral NOUN NN _ 21 obl _ _ 25 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 29 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present · passive | tiny animals | Coral reefs | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 2 | **call** | participle | tiny animals *not said here* | coral polyps | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | tiny animals | hard homes of limestone | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product | | 4 | **live** | gerund | tiny algae *not said here* | | | the coral | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside coral=Location | | 5 | **give** | present | tiny algae | food and colour | reef | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient food=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.lesson:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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