--- title: Anglerfish teeth point inwards so prey cannot escape, and their stom… — Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Anglerfish teeth, prey, stomachs, some. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anglerfish teeth, prey, stomachs, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.lesson:12 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Anglerfish anglerfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 point point VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 inwards inwards ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 so so SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 stomachs stomach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stretch stretch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 so so SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point** | present | Anglerfish teeth | | | | | inwards *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **escape** | can | prey | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stretch** | present | teeth's stomachs | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **swallow** | can | some | prey | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | food | | | the deep | | rare *property* | tree rules | 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:134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.lesson:12`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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