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title: Adult blue tangs are blue with black markings and a yellow tail, but… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Adult blue tangs are blue with black markings and a yellow tail, but young ones are bright yellow, and blue tangs can turn paler at night or when scared. Who acts: Adult blue tangs, young ones, blue tangs. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» of th
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# Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 4

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Adult blue tangs are blue with black markings and a yellow tail, but young ones are bright yellow, and blue tangs can turn paler at night or when scared.

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**Who acts:** Adult blue tangs, young ones, blue tangs · **What happens:** be, turn

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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 (Adult blue tangs, young ones, blue tangs), 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:4
# text = Adult blue tangs are blue with black markings and a yellow tail, but young ones are bright yellow, and blue tangs can turn paler at night or when scared.
# 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): no change
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tangs	tang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	markings	marking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tangs	tang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	paler	pale	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Adult blue tangs |  |  |  |  | with black markings and a yellow tail; blue *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | young ones |  |  |  |  | yellow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | can | blue tangs |  |  |  | night | pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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