--- title: Mangroves are also a nursery for young fish and a wall against storm… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, arc… · tree and pragmatics description: Mangroves are also a nursery for young fish and a wall against storms: their tangled roots break the waves and hold the soil, like a sponge and a fence in one. Who acts: Mangroves, tangled roots. 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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 (Mangroves, tangled roots), 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:3 # text = Mangroves are also a nursery for young fish and a wall against storms: their tangled roots break the waves and hold the soil, like a sponge and a fence in one. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Mangroves mangrove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 nursery nursery NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 against against ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 tangled tangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sponge sponge NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Mangroves | a nursery | | | | for young fish and a wall against storms | tree rules | | 2 | **tangle** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **break** | present | fish's tangled roots | the waves | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wave=Patient | | 4 | **hold** | present | fish's tangled roots *not said here* | the soil | | | | like a sponge and a fence; in one | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent soil=Theme in one=Location | 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:3`. **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 ×2. **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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