--- title: The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is about 2,300 km long and is t… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics description: The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is about 2,300 km long and is the largest structure built by living things. Who acts: Great Barrier Reef. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 8 The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is about 2,300 km long and is the largest structure built by living things. **Who acts:** Great Barrier Reef · **What happens:** be, build · **To what, where:** largest structure 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 (Great Barrier Reef), 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:8 # text = The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is about 2,300 km long and is the largest structure built by living things. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Barrier barrier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 Reef reef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 off off ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 2,300 2,300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 structure structure NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:agent _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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** | present | the Great Barrier Reef off Australia | | | | | 2,300 km *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the Great Barrier Reef off Australia *not said here* | the largest structure | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **build** | participle | | the largest structure *not said here* | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:8`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/7/) - next →: [Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/)