--- title: Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Bruce the great white promises that fish are friends, not food, but a real great white is a hunter of fish, seal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/) [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 sharks, anglerfish,… # Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls Lesson 134 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/0/) — Bruce the great white promises that fish are friends, not food, but a real great white is a hunter of fish, seals and dead whales. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/2/) — Down in the black deep sea a real anglerfish dangles a glowing lure lit by bacteria, and any small fish that swims up to the light ends up behind teeth that point inwards. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/3/) — Up at the surface, a pelican scoops fish with a stretchy pouch like a net, and gulls really do squabble for every scrap, even snatching chips from a person's hand. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/4/) — Great white sharks eat fish, seals and dead whales; fat seals give them the energy to swim fast and keep their bodies warmer than the water around them. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/5/) — Sharks can smell tiny amounts of blood and other substances in water, but the idea that one drop makes them go crazy at once is exaggerated; their nose is only for smelling, not breathing. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/6/) — Sharks also sense tiny electric signals from other animals' muscles through little pores on their snouts. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/7/) — Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones in rows behind, so one shark can use thousands of teeth in its life, and shark teeth are common fossils. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/8/) — Hammerhead sharks have a wide flat head with an eye at each end, which spreads their senses for a better view and more electric sensors, and they sometimes pin stingrays down with it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/9/) — The shortfin mako is the fastest shark, reaching about 50 kilometres an hour or more in bursts, and it can leap several metres out of the water. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/10/) — Sharks very rarely bite people; people are not their normal food, and each year people kill many millions of sharks while sharks kill only a handful of people. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/11/) — Deep-sea anglerfish live in the dark deep sea; the glowing lure on the female's head is lit by bacteria living inside it, and in many kinds the males are tiny. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/12/) — Anglerfish teeth point inwards so prey cannot escape, and their stomachs stretch so some can swallow prey bigger than themselves, because food is rare in the deep. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/13/) — Pelicans scoop fish and water into their throat pouch, then tip their heads to drain the water before swallowing; a brown pelican's pouch holds about 11 litres, more than its stomach. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/14/) — Gulls are bold, noisy birds that eat almost anything, steal food from each other and from people, and are more likely to grab food that a person is holding or looking at. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/15/) — Many reef fish in the film are hard to keep in tanks, needing lots of space, stable clean salt water and the right food; Gill's kind, the Moorish idol, is one of the hardest to keep alive. - ← previous: [Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/) - next →: [Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)