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title: In a clownfish group the biggest fish is the female and the next big… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: In a clownfish group the biggest fish is the female and the next biggest is the male; if the female is lost, the male becomes a female and the next fish becomes the male. Who acts: biggest fish, next biggest, male, next fish. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» o
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 12

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In a clownfish group the biggest fish is the female and the next biggest is the male; if the female is lost, the male becomes a female and the next fish becomes the male.

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**Who acts:** biggest fish, next biggest, male, next fish · **What happens:** be, lose, become · **To what, where:** female, clownfish group, male

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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 (biggest fish, next biggest, male, next fish), 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:12
# text = In a clownfish group the biggest fish is the female and the next biggest is the male; if the female is lost, the male becomes a female and the next fish becomes the male.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod
14	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the biggest fish | the female and the male |  | a clownfish group |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the next biggest | the male |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | the female |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **become** | present | the male | a female |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **become** | present | the next fish | the male |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:12`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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/).

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