--- title: The coral that looks like rocks and plants is really made of tiny an… — The aquarium: the coral reef tank · tree and pragmatics description: The coral that looks like rocks and plants is really made of tiny animals, related to jellyfish, that build stone skeletons and share their home with tiny algae that make food from sunlight. Who acts: coral, tiny animals, tiny 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 (coral, tiny animals, tiny algae), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:1 # text = The coral that looks like rocks and plants is really made of tiny animals, related to jellyfish, that build stone skeletons and share their home with tiny algae that make food from sunlight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coral coral NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 really really ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl:relcl 22 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 skeletons skeleton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | the coral | | | | | like rocks and plants | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **make** | present · passive | | the coral | | | | of tiny animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **build** | present | tiny animals | stone skeletons | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skeleton=Product | | 4 | **share** | present | tiny animals *not said here* | skeletons's home | | | | with tiny algae | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | tiny algae | food | | sunlight | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product 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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The aquarium: the coral reef tank, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/0/) - next →: [The aquarium: the coral reef tank, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/)