--- title: Sea slugs called nudibranchs are bright to warn that they taste bad… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics description: Sea slugs called nudibranchs are bright to warn that they taste bad or sting, and some keep algae inside them and make food from sunlight. Who acts: Sea slugs, slug, some. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» of the biology course of --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 13 Sea slugs called nudibranchs are bright to warn that they taste bad or sting, and some keep algae inside them and make food from sunlight. **Who acts:** Sea slugs, slug, some · **What happens:** call, be, warn, taste, sting, keep · **To what, where:** nudibranchs, algae, food, sunlight · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Sea slugs, slug, some), 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:13 # text = Sea slugs called nudibranchs are bright to warn that they taste bad or sting, and some keep algae inside them and make food from sunlight. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 slugs slug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 nudibranchs nudibranch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 xcomp _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 taste taste VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sting sting VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 18 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 inside inside ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | Sea slugs *not said here* | nudibranchs | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Sea slugs | | | | | bright *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | Sea slugs *not said here* | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **taste** | present | slug | | | | | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **sting** | present | slug *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **keep** | present | some | algae | | | | inside slug | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent alga=Theme inside they=Location | | 7 | **make** | present | some *not said here* | food | | sunlight | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material | 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:13`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Coral reef partners and tricksters: cl…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/12/) - next →: [Coral reef partners and tricksters: cl…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/)