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title: After the film many clownfish were taken from reefs for pet tanks, w… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: After the film many clownfish were taken from reefs for pet tanks, which left too few to lay eggs in some wild groups; most clownfish sold in shops today are bred in tanks. Who acts: pet tanks, few. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» of the biology course of Mov
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 13

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After the film many clownfish were taken from reefs for pet tanks, which left too few to lay eggs in some wild groups; most clownfish sold in shops today are bred in tanks.

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**Who acts:** pet tanks, few · **What happens:** take, leave, lay, sell, breed · **To what, where:** many clownfish, reefs, few, eggs, wild groups, most clownfish

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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 (pet tanks, few), 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:13
# text = After the film many clownfish were taken from reefs for pet tanks, which left too few to lay eggs in some wild groups; most clownfish sold in shops today are bred in tanks.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
28	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33: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 | **take** | past · passive |  | many clownfish |  | reefs | after the film | for pet tanks | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme from reef=Source for tank=Asset |
| 2 | **leave** | past | pet tanks | few |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | to-infinitive | few *not said here* | eggs |  | some wild groups |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in group=Destination |
| 4 | **sell** | participle |  | most clownfish *not said here* |  | shops | today |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **breed** | present · passive |  | most clownfish |  | tanks |  |  | tree rules |

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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:13`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-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/).

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