--- title: Mangroves are trees that grow in salty water along tropical coasts,… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, arc… · tree and pragmatics description: Mangroves are trees that grow in salty water along tropical coasts, and some push salt out through their leaves, where you can see salt crystals. Who acts: Mangroves, trees, some, you. A sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» of the biolo --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 4 Mangroves are trees that grow in salty water along tropical coasts, and some push salt out through their leaves, where you can see salt crystals. **Who acts:** Mangroves, trees, some, you · **What happens:** be, grow, push out, see · **To what, where:** trees, salty water, salt, leaves, salt crystals 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 (Mangroves, trees, some, you), 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:4 # text = Mangroves are trees that grow in salty water along tropical coasts, and some push salt out through their leaves, where you can see salt crystals. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mangroves mangrove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 along along ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 coasts coast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 15 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 out out ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 18 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:parataxis 26 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 crystals crystal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | trees | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | trees | | | salty water | | along tropical coasts | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | | 3 | **push out** | present | some | salt | | mangroves's leaves | | out *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent salt=Theme through leaf=Trajectory | | 4 | **see** | can | you | salt crystals | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crystal=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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