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title: When the sea gets too warm, coral throws out its algae and turns whi… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: When the sea gets too warm, coral throws out its algae and turns white, which is called bleaching. Who acts: sea, coral. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 15

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When the sea gets too warm, coral throws out its algae and turns white, which is called bleaching.

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**Who acts:** sea, coral · **What happens:** get, throw out, turn, call · **To what, where:** algae, bleaching · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sea, coral), 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:15
# text = When the sea gets too warm, coral throws out its algae and turns white, which is called bleaching.
# 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 ×3
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	algae	alga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	bleaching	bleaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **get** | present | the sea |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **throw out** | present | coral | sea's algae |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | present | coral *not said here* |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | bleaching |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:15`.

**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 ×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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