--- title: If the water gets too hot, the corals push their algae out and turn… — Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand fro… · tree and pragmatics description: If the water gets too hot, the corals push their algae out and turn white like bone; this is bleaching, and if the heat lasts too long the coral starves. Who acts: water, corals, this, heat. 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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 (water, corals, this, heat), 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:2 # text = If the water gets too hot, the corals push their algae out and turn white like bone; this is bleaching, and if the heat lasts too long the coral starves. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 corals coral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 algae alga NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 13 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 bleaching bleach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 29 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 coral coral NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 starves starve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | the water | | | | | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **push out** | present | the corals | polyps's algae | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | the corals *not said here* | | | | | white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bleach** | present · progressive | this | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **last** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the heat | | | | | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **starve** | present | the coral | | | | | | 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](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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. 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