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title: The East Australian Current is real: it carries warm water south alo… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: The East Australian Current is real: it carries warm water south along the coast of Australia, and turtles and fish use currents to travel with less effort. Who acts: Australian Current, Current, turtles. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» of the
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# Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 9

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The East Australian Current is real: it carries warm water south along the coast of Australia, and turtles and fish use currents to travel with less effort.

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**Who acts:** Australian Current, Current, turtles · **What happens:** be, carry, use, travel · **To what, where:** warm water, currents

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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 (Australian Current, Current, 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:9
# text = The East Australian Current is real: it carries warm water south along the coast of Australia, and turtles and fish use currents to travel with less effort.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Current	Current	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
10	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	south	south	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	currents	current	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Australian Current |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | present | Current | warm water |  |  |  | along the coast of Australia; south *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | present | turtles and fish | currents |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=Patient |
| 4 | **travel** | to-infinitive | turtles and fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with less effort | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP 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:9`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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