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description: Corals turn white, which is called bleaching, when the water is too hot and they push out the tiny algae living in them, which get a home in the coral and make food from sunlight for it; without the algae they starve, though they can recover if the heat passes. Who acts: Corals, water, tiny algae, h
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# The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 9

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Corals turn white, which is called bleaching, when the water is too hot and they push out the tiny algae living in them, which get a home in the coral and make food from sunlight for it; without the algae they starve, though they can recover if the heat passes.

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**Who acts:** Corals, water, tiny algae, heat · **What happens:** turn, call, bleach, be, push out, live · **To what, where:** tiny algae, home, coral, food, sunlight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Corals, water, tiny algae, heat), 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:9
# text = Corals turn white, which is called bleaching, when the water is too hot and they push out the tiny algae living in them, which get a home in the coral and make food from sunlight for it; without the algae they starve, though they can recover if the heat passes.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Corals	coral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
8	bleaching	bleach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	algae	alga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advcl
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
36	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	without	without	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	algae	alga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	starve	starve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
52	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Corals |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bleach** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **push out** | present | Corals *= coral* | the tiny algae |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | gerund | the tiny algae *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in Corals *= coral* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location |
| 7 | **get** | present | the tiny algae | a home |  | the coral |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus |
| 8 | **make** | present | the tiny algae *not said here* | food |  | sunlight |  | for water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.material PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Product from sunlight=Material for it=Beneficiary |
| 9 | **starve** | present | Corals *= coral* |  |  |  |  | without the algae | tree rules |
| 10 | **recover** | can | Corals *= coral* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **pass** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the heat |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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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