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title: A clownfish lives safely among the stinging tentacles of a sea anemo… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: A clownfish lives safely among the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone and chases away fish that would nibble it, a little cleaner fish swims into a big fish's open mouth to pick it clean, and a nearly blind shrimp digs a home that a goby fish guards. Who acts: clownfish, fish, little cleaner fish, 
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# Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 1

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A clownfish lives safely among the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone and chases away fish that would nibble it, a little cleaner fish swims into a big fish's open mouth to pick it clean, and a nearly blind shrimp digs a home that a goby fish guards.

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**Who acts:** clownfish, fish, little cleaner fish, blind shrimp, goby fish · **What happens:** live, sting, chase away, nibble, swim, pick · **To what, where:** stinging tentacles, fish, clownfish, open mouth, home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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 (clownfish, fish, little cleaner fish, blind shrimp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:1
# text = A clownfish lives safely among the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone and chases away fish that would nibble it, a little cleaner fish swims into a big fish's open mouth to pick it clean, and a nearly blind shrimp digs a home that a goby fish guards.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	anemone	anemone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	nibble	nibble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	swims	swim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	digs	dig	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	goby	goby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | a clownfish |  |  | the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone |  | safely *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tentacle=Location |
| 2 | **sting** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **chase away** | present | a clownfish *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 4 | **nibble** | would | fish | clownfish |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **swim** | present | a little cleaner fish |  |  | a big fish's open mouth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mouth=Destination |
| 6 | **pick** | to-infinitive | a little cleaner fish *not said here* | clownfish |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 7 | **dig** | present | a blind shrimp | a home |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 8 | **guard** | present | a goby fish | a home |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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