--- title: Corals are tiny animals called polyps that build limestone skeletons… — The aquarium: the coral reef tank · tree and pragmatics description: Corals are tiny animals called polyps that build limestone skeletons; algae living inside them make food from sunlight and share it. 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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:9 # text = Corals are tiny animals called polyps that build limestone skeletons; algae living inside them make food from sunlight and share it. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 limestone limestone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 skeletons skeleton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 13 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 inside inside ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 . . 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 | **live** | gerund | algae *not said here* | | | | | inside algae *= alga* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside they=Location | | 5 | **make** | present | algae | food | | sunlight | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material | | 6 | **share** | present | algae *not said here* | food | | | | | tree rules | 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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/8/) - next →: [The aquarium: the coral reef tank, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/)