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title: Coral reefs grow in warm, clear, shallow water, where the tiny algae… — Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand fro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Coral reefs grow in warm, clear, shallow water, where the tiny algae living inside the polyps get enough sunlight to make food. Who acts: Coral reefs, tiny algae. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 5

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Coral reefs grow in warm, clear, shallow water, where the tiny algae living inside the polyps get enough sunlight to make food.

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**Who acts:** Coral reefs, tiny algae · **What happens:** grow, live, get, make · **To what, where:** warm clear shallow water, polyps, enough sunlight, food

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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 (Coral reefs, tiny algae), 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:5
# text = Coral reefs grow in warm, clear, shallow water, where the tiny algae living inside the polyps get enough sunlight to make food.
# 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	Coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	algae	alga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	polyps	polyp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Coral reefs |  |  | warm clear shallow water |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | the tiny algae *not said here* |  |  | the polyps |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside polyp=Location |
| 3 | **get** | present | the tiny algae | enough sunlight |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunlight=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | the tiny algae *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |

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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:5`.

**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.

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

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