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title: Other reef animals win by tricks: a fake eye near the tail, a fish t… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Other reef animals win by tricks: a fake eye near the tail, a fish that swells into a spiky ball, an octopus that pretends to be a lionfish and then a sea snake. Who acts: Other reef animals, fish, octopus. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and
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# Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 2

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Other reef animals win by tricks: a fake eye near the tail, a fish that swells into a spiky ball, an octopus that pretends to be a lionfish and then a sea snake.

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**Who acts:** Other reef animals, fish, octopus · **What happens:** win, swell, pretend, be · **To what, where:** spiky ball, lionfish

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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 (Other reef animals, fish, octopus), 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:2
# text = Other reef animals win by tricks: a fake eye near the tail, a fish that swells into a spiky ball, an octopus that pretends to be a lionfish and then a sea snake.
# 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): no change
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	swells	swell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	spiky	spiky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pretends	pretend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | Other reef animals |  |  |  |  | by tricks | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **swell** | present | a fish |  |  | a spiky ball |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **pretend** | present | a octopus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a octopus *not said here* | a lionfish and a sea snake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): no change. **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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