--- title: When water gets too warm, corals push out their algae and turn white… — Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand fro… · tree and pragmatics description: When water gets too warm, corals push out their algae and turn white, which is called bleaching; big bleaching events have hit the Great Barrier Reef many times since 1998. Who acts: water, corals, big bleaching events. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parr --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 6 When water gets too warm, corals push out their algae and turn white, which is called bleaching; big bleaching events have hit the Great Barrier Reef many times since 1998. **Who acts:** water, corals, big bleaching events · **What happens:** get, push out, turn, call, bleach, hit · **To what, where:** algae, Great Barrier Reef · **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 (water, corals, big bleaching events), 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:6 # text = When water gets too warm, corals push out their algae and turn white, which is called bleaching; big bleaching events have hit the Great Barrier Reef many times since 1998. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 corals coral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 19 bleaching bleach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 bleaching bleaching NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 Barrier barrier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 Reef reef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 since since ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 1998 1998 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | water | | | | | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **push out** | present | corals | polyps's algae | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | corals *not said here* | | | | | white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bleach** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **hit** | present · perfect | big bleaching events | the Great Barrier Reef | | | since 1998; time | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reef=Co-Theme | 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:6`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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