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title: Lionfish have venomous spines and hunt small fish; where they have s… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lionfish have venomous spines and hunt small fish; where they have spread far from their home seas and few hunters eat them, divers hunt them and chefs cook them to help reefs. Who acts: Lionfish, few hunters, divers, chefs. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cl
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# Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 14

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Lionfish have venomous spines and hunt small fish; where they have spread far from their home seas and few hunters eat them, divers hunt them and chefs cook them to help reefs.

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**Who acts:** Lionfish, few hunters, divers, chefs · **What happens:** have, hunt, spread, eat, cook, help · **To what, where:** venomous spines, small fish, home seas, fish, reefs

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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 (Lionfish, few hunters, divers, chefs), 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:14
# text = Lionfish have venomous spines and hunt small fish; where they have spread far from their home seas and few hunters eat them, divers hunt them and chefs cook them to help reefs.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	seas	seas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	divers	diver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
29	chefs	chef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	cook	cook	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:xcomp
34	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Lionfish | venomous spines |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | Lionfish *not said here* | small fish |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | present · perfect | lionfish |  |  | fish's home seas |  | far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | present | few hunters | fish |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **hunt** | present | divers | fish |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **cook** | present | chefs | fish |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 7 | **help** | to-infinitive | chefs *not said here* | reefs |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reef=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): R1-cc-next ×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.

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