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title: Real clownfish spend nearly all their lives within a few metres of t… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: Real clownfish spend nearly all their lives within a few metres of their anemone, because leaving its tentacles is dangerous for a small fish. Who acts: Real clownfish, leaving. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 6

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Real clownfish spend nearly all their lives within a few metres of their anemone, because leaving its tentacles is dangerous for a small fish.

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**Who acts:** Real clownfish, leaving · **What happens:** spend, leave, be · **To what, where:** lives, tentacles

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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, leaving), 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:6
# text = Real clownfish spend nearly all their lives within a few metres of their anemone, because leaving its tentacles is dangerous for a small fish.
# 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	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:DT:_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	anemone	anemone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | present | Real clownfish | Clownfish's lives |  |  |  | within a few metres of Clownfish's anemone | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund |  | animal's tentacles |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | leaving |  |  |  |  | for a small fish; dangerous *property* | 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:6`.

**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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