--- title: A clownfish is safe because a layer of slimy mucus covers its skin,… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics description: A clownfish is safe because a layer of slimy mucus covers its skin, and it touches the anemone carefully at first while its mucus slowly changes, until the stings stop firing at it. Who acts: clownfish, layer, mucus, stings. 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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 (clownfish, layer, mucus, 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:1 # text = A clownfish is safe because a layer of slimy mucus covers its skin, and it touches the anemone carefully at first while its mucus slowly changes, until the stings stop firing at it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 clownfish clownfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 slimy slimy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 mucus mucus NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 anemone anemone NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 advmod _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 mucus mucus NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 stings sting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 33 firing fire VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 xcomp _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 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** | present | a clownfish | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cover** | present | a layer of slimy mucus | layer's skin | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skin=Destination | | 3 | **touch** | present | layer | the anemone | | | | carefully, first *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anemone=Co-Theme | | 4 | **change** | present | layer's mucus | | | | | slowly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | present | the stings | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **fire** | gerund | the stings *not said here* | | | layer | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at it=Destination | 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:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.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): R7-rel-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. 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