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title: Groupers shake their heads at moray eels to invite them to hunt toge… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Groupers shake their heads at moray eels to invite them to hunt together; the eel goes into cracks and the grouper catches fish that flee into open water. Who acts: Groupers, heads, eel, grouper. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» o
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# Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 10

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Groupers shake their heads at moray eels to invite them to hunt together; the eel goes into cracks and the grouper catches fish that flee into open water.

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**Who acts:** Groupers, heads, eel, grouper, fish · **What happens:** shake, invite, hunt, go, catch, flee · **To what, where:** heads, moray eels, cracks, fish, open water

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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 (Groupers, heads, eel, grouper), 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:10
# text = Groupers shake their heads at moray eels to invite them to hunt together; the eel goes into cracks and the grouper catches fish that flee into open water.
# 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 ×1
1	Groupers	grouper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shake	shake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	moray	moray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	grouper	grouper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flee	flee	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | present | Groupers | Groupers's heads |  | moray eels |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme at eel=Trajectory |
| 2 | **invite** | to-infinitive | Groupers *not said here* | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hunt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | heads *= head* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | present | the eel |  |  | cracks |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into crack=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **catch** | present | the grouper | fish |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 6 | **flee** | present | fish |  |  | open water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial\_Location |

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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 ×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.

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