--- title: A sea anemone looks like a flower but is an animal, a relative of je… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics description: A sea anemone looks like a flower but is an animal, a relative of jellyfish and corals, that catches small animals with stinging tentacles and pushes them into a mouth in its middle. Who acts: sea anemone, animal. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea anemone, animal), 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:4 # text = A sea anemone looks like a flower but is an animal, a relative of jellyfish and corals, that catches small animals with stinging tentacles and pushes them into a mouth in its middle. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 anemone anemone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 corals coral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 stinging sting VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 tentacles tentacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | a sea anemone | | | | | like a flower | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | a sea anemone *not said here* | a animal | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **catch** | present | a animal | small animals | | | | with stinging tentacles | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 4 | **sting** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **push** | present | a animal *not said here* | anemones *= anemone* | | a mouth in mouth's middle | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into mouth=Destination | 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. **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. 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