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title: Newly hatched clownfish drift in the open sea as tiny larvae for abo… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: Newly hatched clownfish drift in the open sea as tiny larvae for about one or two weeks, then find a reef by its smell and crackling sound and swim to it. Who acts: hatched clownfish, reef. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» of the biology course of Mova's prima
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 8

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Newly hatched clownfish drift in the open sea as tiny larvae for about one or two weeks, then find a reef by its smell and crackling sound and swim to it.

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**Who acts:** hatched clownfish, reef · **What happens:** hatch, drift, find, crackle, swim, smell · **To what, where:** open sea, reef

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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 (hatched clownfish, reef), 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:8
# text = Newly hatched clownfish drift in the open sea as tiny larvae for about one or two weeks, then find a reef by its smell and crackling sound and swim to 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:acl
3	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drift	drift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	larvae	larva	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
17	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	crackling	crackle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
28	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **drift** | present | hatched clownfish |  |  | the open sea | week | as tiny larvae | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive | hatched clownfish *not said here* | a reef |  |  | then | by reef's smell and sound | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reef=Topic |
| 4 | **crackle** | gerund | hatched clownfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **swim** | infinitive | hatched clownfish *not said here* |  |  | reef |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination |
| 6 | **smell** |  | reef |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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