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title: Real blue tangs do not forget everything: most fish remember things… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real blue tangs do not forget everything: most fish remember things for weeks or months, so Dory's memory is a story idea, not fish science. Who acts: Real blue tangs, most fish, memory. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» of the biology course of
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# Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 1

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Real blue tangs do not forget everything: most fish remember things for weeks or months, so Dory's memory is a story idea, not fish science.

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**Who acts:** Real blue tangs, most fish, memory · **What happens:** not forget, remember, be · **To what, where:** everything, things, story idea

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» 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 blue tangs, most fish, memory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.lesson:1
# text = Real blue tangs do not forget everything: most fish remember things for weeks or months, so Dory's memory is a story idea, not fish science.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tangs	tang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
19	Dory	Dory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | present · do-support | Real blue tangs | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | present | most fish | things |  |  | week |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Dory's memory | a story idea and fish science |  |  |  |  | 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:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.lesson:1`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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