--- title: A coral reef looks like coloured rock, but it is built by billions o… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics description: A coral reef looks like coloured rock, but it is built by billions of tiny animals called polyps, cousins of jellyfish, that make limestone skeletons and keep tiny algae inside their bodies to share food made from sunlight. Who acts: coral reef, billions, tiny animals. A sentence of the lesson «Cora --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/0/) [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/) / [Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/) / 0 # Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 0 A coral reef looks like coloured rock, but it is built by billions of tiny animals called polyps, cousins of jellyfish, that make limestone skeletons and keep tiny algae inside their bodies to share food made from sunlight. **Who acts:** coral reef, billions, tiny animals · **What happens:** look, build, call, make, keep, share · **To what, where:** reef, polyps, limestone skeletons, tiny algae, bodies, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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 (coral reef, billions, tiny animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:0 # text = A coral reef looks like coloured rock, but it is built by billions of tiny animals called polyps, cousins of jellyfish, that make limestone skeletons and keep tiny algae inside their bodies to share food made from sunlight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 coral coral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 reef reef NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 billions billion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 polyps polyp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl:relcl 27 limestone limestone NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 skeletons skeleton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 inside inside ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:acl 38 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **look** | present | a coral reef | | | | | like coloured rock | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **build** | present · passive | billions of tiny animals and cousins of jellyfish | reef | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 3 | **call** | participle | tiny animals *not said here* | polyps | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | tiny animals | limestone skeletons | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skeleton=Product | | 5 | **keep** | present | tiny animals *not said here* | tiny algae | | algae's bodies | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent alga=Theme inside body=Location | | 6 | **share** | to-infinitive | tiny animals *not said here* | food | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | participle | | food *not said here* | | sunlight | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from sunlight=Material | 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:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/17/) - next →: [Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/)