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title: Not all corals live in warm water: some reefs grow in cold, dark wat… — Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand fro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not all corals live in warm water: some reefs grow in cold, dark water deep down, for example off Norway, and some are thousands of years old. Who acts: corals, reefs. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams» of the biology course of Mov
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# Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 15

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Not all corals live in warm water: some reefs grow in cold, dark water deep down, for example off Norway, and some are thousands of years old.

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**Who acts:** corals, reefs · **What happens:** not live, grow, be · **To what, where:** warm water, cold dark water

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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 (corals, reefs), 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:15
# text = Not all corals live in warm water: some reefs grow in cold, dark water deep down, for example off Norway, and some are thousands of years old.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	corals	coral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **live** | present | all corals |  |  | warm water |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | present | some reefs |  |  | cold dark water |  | for example; off Norway | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | all corals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | some thousands of years *obl*; old *property* | tree rules |

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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:172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams.lesson:15`.

**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 ×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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