--- title: The giant clam is the biggest clam in the world and can weigh more t… — Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand fro… · tree and pragmatics description: The giant clam is the biggest clam in the world and can weigh more than two hundred kilos; the story of giant clams trapping divers' legs is a myth, because they close slowly and usually not fully. Who acts: giant clam, story, kilos. 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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 (giant clam, story, kilos), 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:9 # text = The giant clam is the biggest clam in the world and can weigh more than two hundred kilos; the story of giant clams trapping divers' legs is a myth, because they close slowly and usually not fully. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 clam clam NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 clam clam NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 14 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 17 advmod _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 compound _ _ 17 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 kilos kilo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 clams clam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 trapping trap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 csubj _ _ 26 divers diver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 ' 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 usually usually ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 fully fully ADV RB _ 36 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the giant clam | the biggest clam | | the world | | | tree rules | | 2 | **weigh** | can | the giant clam *not said here* | hundred kilos | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilo=Value | | 3 | **trap** | gerund | | divers's legs | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | the story of giant clams | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **close** | present | kilos *= kilo* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:9`. **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): no change. **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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