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title: Spotted eagle rays flap wing-like fins to fly through the water and… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Spotted eagle rays flap wing-like fins to fly through the water and sometimes leap out of it; rays are flat relatives of sharks with skeletons of cartilage (the bendy stuff in your ear), not bone. Who acts: Spotted eagle rays, rays. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtle
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# Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 16

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Spotted eagle rays flap wing-like fins to fly through the water and sometimes leap out of it; rays are flat relatives of sharks with skeletons of cartilage (the bendy stuff in your ear), not bone.

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**Who acts:** Spotted eagle rays, rays · **What happens:** spot, flap, fly, leap out, be · **To what, where:** wing fins, water, flat relatives

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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 (Spotted eagle rays, rays), 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:16
# text = Spotted eagle rays flap wing-like fins to fly through the water and sometimes leap out of it; rays are flat relatives of sharks with skeletons of cartilage (the bendy stuff in your ear), not bone.
# 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 ×1
1	Spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flap	flap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	amod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	cartilage	cartilage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	bendy	bendy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 2 | **flap** | present | Spotted eagle rays | wing fins |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Patient |
| 3 | **fly** | to-infinitive | Spotted eagle rays *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Location |
| 4 | **leap out** | infinitive | Spotted eagle rays *not said here* | water |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is a** | present | rays | flat relatives |  |  |  | of sharks with skeletons of cartilage and bone | 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:16`.

**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 ×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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