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title: The trumpetfish hides by swimming glued to the side of a larger harm… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: The trumpetfish hides by swimming glued to the side of a larger harmless fish, and it also hangs head down among soft corals looking like one more stick. Who acts: trumpetfish, soft corals. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» of the 
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# Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 11

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The trumpetfish hides by swimming glued to the side of a larger harmless fish, and it also hangs head down among soft corals looking like one more stick.

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**Who acts:** trumpetfish, soft corals · **What happens:** hide, swim, glue, hang, look · **To what, where:** head, soft corals

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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 (trumpetfish, soft corals), 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:11
# text = The trumpetfish hides by swimming glued to the side of a larger harmless fish, and it also hangs head down among soft corals looking like one more stick.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trumpetfish	trumpetfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	glued	glue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
13	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	corals	coral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
25	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **hide** | present | the trumpetfish |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **swim** | gerund | the trumpetfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **glue** | participle | the trumpetfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the side of a larger harmless fish | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to side=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **hang** | present | trumpetfish | head |  | soft corals |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme among coral=Destination |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | soft corals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like one more stick | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:11`.

**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. **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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