--- title: Parrotfish scrape algae off coral with beak-like teeth, grind up cor… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics description: Parrotfish scrape algae off coral with beak-like teeth, grind up coral rock and pass it out as fine sand, and one large parrotfish can make hundreds of kilograms of sand a year. Who acts: Parrotfish, one large parrotfish. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» of the biol --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 10 Parrotfish scrape algae off coral with beak-like teeth, grind up coral rock and pass it out as fine sand, and one large parrotfish can make hundreds of kilograms of sand a year. **Who acts:** Parrotfish, one large parrotfish · **What happens:** scrape, grind up, pass out, make · **To what, where:** algae, coral rock, rock, hundreds 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 (Parrotfish, one large 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:10 # text = Parrotfish scrape algae off coral with beak-like teeth, grind up coral rock and pass it out as fine sand, and one large parrotfish can make hundreds of kilograms of sand a year. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Parrotfish parrotfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 scrape scrape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 off off ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 coral coral NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 grind grind 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 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 coral coral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 parrotfish parrotfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 30 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scrape** | present | Parrotfish | algae | | | | off coral; with like teeth | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient with tooth=Instrument | | 2 | **grind up** | present | Parrotfish *not said here* | coral rock | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient | | 3 | **pass out** | present | Parrotfish *not said here* | rock | | | | as fine sand | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **make** | can | one large parrotfish | hundreds of kilograms of sand | | | year | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hundred=Product | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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