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title: Clownfish lay eggs on a rock beside their anemone, and the father fa… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: Clownfish lay eggs on a rock beside their anemone, and the father fans and guards them, which keeps fresh water with oxygen flowing over them; they hatch in about a week, usually at night. Who acts: Clownfish, father, oxygen. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» o
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 7

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Clownfish lay eggs on a rock beside their anemone, and the father fans and guards them, which keeps fresh water with oxygen flowing over them; they hatch in about a week, usually at night.

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**Who acts:** Clownfish, father, oxygen · **What happens:** lay, fan, guard, keep, flow, hatch · **To what, where:** eggs, rock, Clownfish, fresh water

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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 (Clownfish, father, oxygen), 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:7
# text = Clownfish lay eggs on a rock beside their anemone, and the father fans and guards them, which keeps fresh water with oxygen flowing over them; they hatch in about a week, usually at night.
# 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 ×1
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	anemone	anemone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fans	fan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	hatch	hatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	about	about	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **lay** | present | Clownfish | eggs |  | a rock |  | beside Clownfish's anemone | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on rock=Destination |
| 2 | **fan** | present | father |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **guard** | present | father *not said here* | Clownfish |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **keep** | present |  | fresh water |  |  |  | with oxygen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 5 | **flow** | gerund | oxygen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over Clownfish | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location |
| 6 | **hatch** | present | Clownfish |  |  |  | night; week |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: 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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**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 ×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.

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