--- title: Pufferfish gulp water and swell into a spiky ball when scared, which… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics description: Pufferfish gulp water and swell into a spiky ball when scared, which makes them hard to swallow, and many contain a strong poison, so in Japan only specially trained cooks may prepare them. Who acts: Pufferfish gulp water, turtles, many, trained cooks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pufferfish gulp water, turtles, many, trained cooks), 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:15 # text = Pufferfish gulp water and swell into a spiky ball when scared, which makes them hard to swallow, and many contain a strong poison, so in Japan only specially trained cooks may prepare them. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pufferfish Pufferfish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 gulp gulp NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 swell swell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 spiky spiky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 11 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nsubj _ _ 22 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 30 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 31 specially specially ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 cooks cook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 prepare prepare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swell** | infinitive | Pufferfish gulp water | | | a spiky ball | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **make** | present | | turtles *= turtle* | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 3 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | turtles *= turtle* *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **contain** | present | many | a strong poison | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot poison=Theme | | 5 | **train** | participle | | | | | | specially *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **prepare** | may | trained cooks | turtles *= turtle* | | Japan | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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. **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:15`. **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, 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. 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