--- title: People say the Great Barrier Reef is the only living thing you can s… — Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand fro… · tree and pragmatics description: People say the Great Barrier Reef is the only living thing you can see from space, but it is made of countless living things, and astronauts can see cities and roads too. Who acts: People, Great Barrier Reef, you, astronauts. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand fro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/) / 12 # Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 12 People say the Great Barrier Reef is the only living thing you can see from space, but it is made of countless living things, and astronauts can see cities and roads too. **Who acts:** People, Great Barrier Reef, you, astronauts · **What happens:** say, be, see, make, live · **To what, where:** only living thing, space, reef, cities · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams» 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 (People, Great Barrier Reef, you, astronauts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams.lesson:12 # text = People say the Great Barrier Reef is the only living thing you can see from space, but it is made of countless living things, and astronauts can see cities and roads too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 Barrier barrier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 Reef reef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 countless countless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 31 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 34 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the Great Barrier Reef | the only living thing | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | can | you | the only living thing *not said here* | | space | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | present · passive | | reef | | | | of countless living things | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **see** | can | astronauts | cities and roads | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus | 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:172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams.lesson:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/11/) - next →: [Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/)