--- title: A coral reef is a busy town where many animals make deals: you help… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics description: A coral reef is a busy town where many animals make deals: you help me and I help you, like two friends where one carries the shopping and the other opens the doors. Who acts: coral reef, many animals, you, I. 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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 (coral reef, many animals, you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:0 # text = A coral reef is a busy town where many animals make deals: you help me and I help you, like two friends where one carries the shopping and the other opens the doors. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 coral coral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 reef reef NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 deals deal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nsubj _ _ 27 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 shopping shopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 nsubj _ _ 33 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a coral reef | a busy town | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | many animals | deals | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Product | | 3 | **help** | present | you | | me | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 4 | **help** | present | I | | you | | | like two friends | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | | 5 | **carry** | present | one | the shopping | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shopping=Theme | | 6 | **open** | present | the other | the doors | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/172-coral-reef-builders-polyps-bleaching-sand-from-parrotfish-and-giant-clams/15/) - next →: [Coral reef partners and tricksters: cl…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/)