--- title: Parrotfish bite algae off coral with beak-like teeth and grind up bi… — Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand fro… · tree and pragmatics description: Parrotfish bite algae off coral with beak-like teeth and grind up bits of coral; one big parrotfish can make hundreds of kilos of sand a year. Who acts: Parrotfish, one big parrotfish. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams» of the biol --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 7 Parrotfish bite algae off coral with beak-like teeth and grind up bits of coral; one big parrotfish can make hundreds of kilos of sand a year. **Who acts:** Parrotfish, one big parrotfish · **What happens:** bite, grind up, make · **To what, where:** algae, bits, hundreds 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 (Parrotfish, one big 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:7 # text = Parrotfish bite algae off coral with beak-like teeth and grind up bits of coral; one big parrotfish can make hundreds of kilos of sand a year. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Parrotfish parrotfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 off off ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 coral coral NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 grind grind VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 coral coral NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 parrotfish parrotfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 23 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 kilos kilo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | present | Parrotfish | algae | | | | off coral; with like teeth | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent alga=Patient with tooth=Instrument | | 2 | **grind up** | present | Parrotfish *not said here* | bits of coral | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | | 3 | **make** | can | one big parrotfish | hundreds of kilos of sand | | | year | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hundred=Product | 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:7`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/6/) - next →: [Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/)