--- title: Most trees die if you pour salty sea water on their roots, but mangr… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, arc… · tree and pragmatics description: Most trees die if you pour salty sea water on their roots, but mangroves grow with their feet in it, along warm tropical coasts where the tide comes in and out twice a day. Who acts: Most trees, you, mangroves, tide. 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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 (Most trees, you, mangroves, tide), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:0 # text = Most trees die if you pour salty sea water on their roots, but mangroves grow with their feet in it, along warm tropical coasts where the tide comes in and out twice a day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 pour pour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 mangroves mangrove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 along along ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 coasts coast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advcl 31 in in ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 out out ADV RB _ 31 conj _ _ 34 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 36 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | present | Most trees | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **pour** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | salty sea water | | trees's roots | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | present | mangroves | | | water | | with trees's feet; along warm tropical coasts | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | | 4 | **come** | present | the tide | | | | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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