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title: Jellyfish sting with tiny harpoon cells in their tentacles that fire… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jellyfish sting with tiny harpoon cells in their tentacles that fire when touched, and they have no brain, heart or bones and are mostly water. Who acts: that, turtles. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc
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# Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 14

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Jellyfish sting with tiny harpoon cells in their tentacles that fire when touched, and they have no brain, heart or bones and are mostly water.

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**Who acts:** that, turtles · **What happens:** fire, touch, have, be · **To what, where:** brain, water

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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 (that, turtles), 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:14
# text = Jellyfish sting with tiny harpoon cells in their tentacles that fire when touched, and they have no brain, heart or bones and are mostly water.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
5	harpoon	harpoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fire	fire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **fire** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **touch** | participle | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | turtles *= turtle* | no brain and heart or bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | turtles *= turtle* *not said here* | water |  |  |  | mostly *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:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.lesson:14`.

**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. **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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