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title: The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is the biggest coral reef syste… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is the biggest coral reef system in the world, about 2,300 kilometres long, made of thousands of reefs and islands. Who acts: Great Barrier Reef. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 16

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The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is the biggest coral reef system in the world, about 2,300 kilometres long, made of thousands of reefs and islands.

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**Who acts:** Great Barrier Reef · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** biggest reef system, world

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.lesson:16
# text = The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is the biggest coral reef system in the world, about 2,300 kilometres long, made of thousands of reefs and islands.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Barrier	barrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	Reef	reef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
10	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	2,300	2,300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod:unmarked
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Great Barrier Reef off Australia | the biggest reef system |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the biggest reef system *not said here* |  |  |  | of thousands of reefs and islands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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 ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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