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title: Fish can live with an uneven fin from birth or injury and swim with… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones · tree and pragmatics
description: Fish can live with an uneven fin from birth or injury and swim with their other fins and tail, and many fish can regrow damaged fins. Who acts: Fish, many fish. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 9

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Fish can live with an uneven fin from birth or injury and swim with their other fins and tail, and many fish can regrow damaged fins.

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**Who acts:** Fish, many fish · **What happens:** live, swim, regrow, damage · **To what, where:** birth, damaged fins

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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 (Fish, many fish), 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:9
# text = Fish can live with an uneven fin from birth or injury and swim with their other fins and tail, and many fish can regrow damaged fins.
# 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	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	uneven	uneven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fin	fin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	regrow	regrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
26	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | can | Fish |  |  | birth or injury |  | with a uneven fin | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with fin=Location |
| 2 | **swim** | infinitive | Fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fish's other fins and tail | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fin=Theme |
| 3 | **regrow** | can | many fish | damaged fins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **damage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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:9`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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