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title: Down in the black deep sea a real anglerfish dangles a glowing lure… — Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: real anglerfish, small fish, teeth. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gull
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# Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 2

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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.

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**Who acts:** real anglerfish, small fish, teeth · **What happens:** dangle, glow, lit, swim up, end up, point · **To what, where:** glowing lure, black deep sea, light, teeth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» 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 (real anglerfish, small fish, teeth), 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:2
# text = 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.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	anglerfish	anglerfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dangles	dangle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	lure	lure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	swims	swim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
30	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	inwards	inwards	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **dangle** | present | a real anglerfish | a glowing lure |  | the black deep sea |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lure=Theme in sea=Destination |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lit** | participle |  | a glowing lure *not said here* |  |  |  | by bacteria | tree rules |
| 4 | **swim up** | present | any small fish |  |  | the light |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to light=Destination |
| 5 | **end up** | present | any small fish |  |  | teeth |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **point** | present | teeth |  |  |  |  | inwards *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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