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title: Scientists breed tougher corals and plant them back on damaged reefs. — The future of life: de-extinction, climate, cora… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists breed tougher corals and plant them back on damaged reefs. Who acts: Scientists. A sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 10

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Scientists breed tougher corals and plant them back on damaged reefs.

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**Who acts:** Scientists · **What happens:** breed, plant back, damage · **To what, where:** tougher corals, Corals, damaged reefs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 (Scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:10
# text = Scientists breed tougher corals and plant them back on damaged reefs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.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 ×1
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	breed	breed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tougher	tough	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	corals	coral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	plant	plant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breed** | present | Scientists | tougher corals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **plant back** | present | Scientists *not said here* | Corals *= coral* |  | damaged reefs |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on reef=Destination |
| 3 | **damage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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