--- title: Blue tangs often feed in groups, grazing algae off coral and rocks,… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics description: Blue tangs often feed in groups, grazing algae off coral and rocks, which helps them push past fish guarding their own algae patches and stops algae smothering the coral. Who acts: Blue tangs, tangs, fish, algae. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea tur…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/) / 6 # Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 6 Blue tangs often feed in groups, grazing algae off coral and rocks, which helps them push past fish guarding their own algae patches and stops algae smothering the coral. **Who acts:** Blue tangs, tangs, fish, algae · **What happens:** feed, graze, help, push, guard, stop · **To what, where:** groups, algae, tangs, own algae patches, coral 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 (Blue tangs, tangs, fish, algae), 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:6 # text = Blue tangs often feed in groups, grazing algae off coral and rocks, which helps them push past fish guarding their own algae patches and stops algae smothering the coral. # 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 ×5, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tangs tang NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 grazing graze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 9 algae alga NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 10 off off ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 coral coral NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 past past ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 guarding guard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod:poss 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:amod 24 algae alga NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 25 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 28 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 29 smothering smother VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 coral coral NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | present | Blue tangs | | | groups | | often *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location | | 2 | **graze** | gerund | Blue tangs *not said here* | algae | | | | off coral and rocks | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Experiencer | | 3 | **help** | present | | tangs *= tang* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **push** | infinitive | tangs *= tang* *not said here* | | | | | past fish | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past fish=Trajectory | | 5 | **guard** | gerund | fish *not said here* | tangs's own algae patches | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stop** | present | fish *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **smother** | gerund | algae *not said here* | the coral | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coral=Destination | 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:6`. **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 ×5, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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