--- title: Corals are tiny animals called polyps, related to jellyfish, that bu… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics description: Corals are tiny animals called polyps, related to jellyfish, that build limestone skeletons and keep algae inside that make food from sunlight, so reef corals need clear, sunny, shallow water. Who acts: Corals, tiny animals, polyps, algae. 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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 (Corals, tiny animals, polyps, algae), 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:7 # text = Corals are tiny animals called polyps, related to jellyfish, that build limestone skeletons and keep algae inside that make food from sunlight, so reef corals need clear, sunny, shallow water. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Corals coral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 polyps polyp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 14 limestone limestone NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 skeletons skeleton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 inside inside ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 reef reef NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 corals coral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 30 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 36 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Corals | tiny animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | tiny animals *not said here* | polyps | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **build** | present | polyps | limestone skeletons | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skeleton=Product | | 4 | **keep** | present | polyps *not said here* | algae | | | | inside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | algae | food | | sunlight | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material | | 6 | **need** | present | reef corals | clear sunny shallow water | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme | 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:7`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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