--- title: Reefs are the busiest neighbourhoods in the sea: a clownfish lives i… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics description: Reefs are the busiest neighbourhoods in the sea: a clownfish lives in a stinging anemone, a little cleaner wrasse runs a cleaning station for big fish, and parrotfish crunch coral and turn it into white sand. Who acts: Reefs, clownfish, little cleaner wrasse, parrotfish. 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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 (Reefs, clownfish, little cleaner wrasse, parrotfish), 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:1 # text = Reefs are the busiest neighbourhoods in the sea: a clownfish lives in a stinging anemone, a little cleaner wrasse runs a cleaning station for big fish, and parrotfish crunch coral and turn it into white sand. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Reefs reef NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 busiest busy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 neighbourhoods neighbourhood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 clownfish clownfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 stinging sting VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 anemone anemone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 cleaner cleaner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 wrasse wrasse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 cleaning cleaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 parrotfish parrotfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 crunch crunch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 coral coral NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | Reefs | the busiest neighbourhoods | | the sea | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | a clownfish | | | a stinging anemone | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anemone=Location | | 3 | **sting** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **run** | present | a little cleaner wrasse | a cleaning station | | | | for big fish | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent station=Product for fish=Beneficiary | | 5 | **crunch** | present | parrotfish | coral | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coral=Patient | | 6 | **turn** | present | parrotfish *not said here* | reef | | white sand | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into sand=Trajectory | 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:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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