--- title: Walk on a white tropical beach and much of the sand under your feet… — Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand fro… · tree and pragmatics description: Walk on a white tropical beach and much of the sand under your feet may have passed through a parrotfish, which crunches coral with its beak and poops out fine sand. Who acts: you, parrotfish. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams» of --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 3 Walk on a white tropical beach and much of the sand under your feet may have passed through a parrotfish, which crunches coral with its beak and poops out fine sand. **Who acts:** you, parrotfish · **What happens:** walk, pass, crunch, poop out · **To what, where:** white tropical beach, parrotfish, coral, fine sand 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 (you, parrotfish), 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:3 # text = Walk on a white tropical beach and much of the sand under your feet may have passed through a parrotfish, which crunches coral with its beak and poops out fine sand. # 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 1 Walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 under under ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ _ 17 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 18 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 parrotfish parrotfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 crunches crunch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 coral coral NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 poops poop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | a white tropical beach | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Trajectory | | 2 | **pass** | may · perfect | you *not said here* | | | a parrotfish | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through parrotfish=Location | | 3 | **crunch** | present | a parrotfish | coral | | | | with coral's beak | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent coral=Patient with beak=Instrument | | 4 | **poop out** | present | a parrotfish *not said here* | fine sand | | | | | 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:3`. **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. **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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