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title: Clownfish really do live inside sea anemones, whose waving tentacles… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: Clownfish really do live inside sea anemones, whose waving tentacles are full of stings that kill other small fish. Who acts: Clownfish, waving tentacles, stings. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 0

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Clownfish really do live inside sea anemones, whose waving tentacles are full of stings that kill other small fish.

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**Who acts:** Clownfish, waving tentacles, stings · **What happens:** live, wave, be, kill · **To what, where:** sea anemones, other small fish

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» 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 (Clownfish, waving tentacles, stings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.lesson:0
# text = Clownfish really do live inside sea anemones, whose waving tentacles are full of stings that kill other small fish.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.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 ×2
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	anemones	anemone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	amod	_	_
11	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · do-support | Clownfish |  |  | sea anemones |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside anemone=Location |
| 2 | **wave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | waving tentacles |  |  |  |  | of stings; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** | present | stings | other small fish |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |

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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.

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**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:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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/).

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