--- title: Green turtles visit cleaning stations where fish pick algae off thei… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics description: Green turtles visit cleaning stations where fish pick algae off their shells, and as adults they eat plants, which gives their fat a green colour. Who acts: Green turtles, fish, plants. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» of the biol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Coral reef partners and tricksters: cl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/) / 12 # Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 12 Green turtles visit cleaning stations where fish pick algae off their shells, and as adults they eat plants, which gives their fat a green colour. **Who acts:** Green turtles, fish, plants · **What happens:** visit, pick, eat, give · **To what, where:** cleaning stations, algae, plants, green colour, fat 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 (Green turtles, fish, plants), 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:12 # text = Green turtles visit cleaning stations where fish pick algae off their shells, and as adults they eat plants, which gives their fat a green colour. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 visit visit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 cleaning clean NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 algae alga NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 10 off off ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 15 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **visit** | present | Green turtles | cleaning stations | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Co-Agent | | 2 | **pick** | present | fish | algae | | | | off fish's shells | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | present | fish | plants | | | | as adults | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 4 | **give** | present | plants | a green colour | fish's fat | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fat=Recipient colour=Theme | 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:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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