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title: It is a good deal for both: the anemone keeps the clownfish safe fro… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a good deal for both: the anemone keeps the clownfish safe from bigger fish, and the clownfish cleans the anemone and chases off fish that would nibble it. Who acts: mucus, anemone, clownfish, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» of the biology course 
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 2

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It is a good deal for both: the anemone keeps the clownfish safe from bigger fish, and the clownfish cleans the anemone and chases off fish that would nibble it.

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**Who acts:** mucus, anemone, clownfish, fish · **What happens:** be, keep, clean, chase off, nibble · **To what, where:** good deal, clownfish, anemone, fish, mucus

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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 (mucus, anemone, clownfish, 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:2
# text = It is a good deal for both: the anemone keeps the clownfish safe from bigger fish, and the clownfish cleans the anemone and chases off fish that would nibble 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	anemone	anemone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
22	cleans	clean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	anemone	anemone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	nibble	nibble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | mucus | a good deal |  |  |  | for both | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the anemone | the clownfish |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clownfish=Theme |
| 3 | **clean** | present | the clownfish | the anemone |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent anemone=Patient |
| 4 | **chase off** | present | the clownfish *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 5 | **nibble** | would | fish | mucus |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:2`.

**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 ×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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