--- title: Many young reef fish grow up safely among mangrove roots, so where m… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, arc… · tree and pragmatics description: Many young reef fish grow up safely among mangrove roots, so where mangroves are cut down, some reefs have fewer fish. Who acts: Many young reef fish, reefs. A sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» of the biology course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers/13/) [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/) / [Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudski…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers/) / 13 # Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 13 Many young reef fish grow up safely among mangrove roots, so where mangroves are cut down, some reefs have fewer fish. **Who acts:** Many young reef fish, reefs · **What happens:** grow up, cut down, have · **To what, where:** mangrove roots, mangroves, fewer fish This is a sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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 (Many young reef fish, reefs), 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:13 # text = Many young reef fish grow up safely among mangrove roots, so where mangroves are cut down, some reefs have fewer fish. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod 3 reef reef NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 safely safely ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 among among ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 mangrove mangrove NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 14 mangroves mangrove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 reefs reef NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow up** | present | Many young reef fish | | | mangrove roots | | safely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among root=Location | | 2 | **cut down** | present · passive | | mangroves | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **have** | present | some reefs | fewer fish | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, 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. 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