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title: Real clownfish families are stranger than the film: the biggest fish… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: Real clownfish families are stranger than the film: the biggest fish is the mother, and if she is lost, the father turns into a female, so a real Marlin would have become Nemo's new mum. Who acts: Real clownfish families, biggest fish, father, real Marlin. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: rea
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 3

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Real clownfish families are stranger than the film: the biggest fish is the mother, and if she is lost, the father turns into a female, so a real Marlin would have become Nemo's new mum.

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**Who acts:** Real clownfish families, biggest fish, father, real Marlin · **What happens:** be, lose, turn, become · **To what, where:** mother, she, female, new mum

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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 (Real clownfish families, biggest fish, father, real Marlin), 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:3
# text = Real clownfish families are stranger than the film: the biggest fish is the mother, and if she is lost, the father turns into a female, so a real Marlin would have become Nemo's new mum.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:amod
2	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
3	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	stranger	strange	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Marlin	Marlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
37	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	_
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Real clownfish families |  |  |  |  | than the film; strange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the biggest fish | the mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | she |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **turn** | present | the father |  |  | a female |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into female=Trajectory |
| 5 | **become** | would · perfect | a real Marlin | Nemo's new mum |  |  |  |  | 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:3`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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