--- title: Bright colours on a reef often mean the opposite of hiding: a glowin… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics description: Bright colours on a reef often mean the opposite of hiding: a glowing sea slug or a lionfish with spread fins is saying keep away, I taste bad or I sting. Who acts: Bright colours, opposite, glowing sea slug, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bright colours, opposite, glowing sea slug, I), 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:3 # text = Bright colours on a reef often mean the opposite of hiding: a glowing sea slug or a lionfish with spread fins is saying keep away, I taste bad or I sting. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 reef reef NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 glowing glow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 15 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 slug slug NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 lionfish lionfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 spread spread NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 fins fin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 25 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 taste taste VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 30 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sting sting VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Bright colours on a reef | the opposite | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic | | 2 | **hide** | gerund | the opposite *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **glow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | a glowing sea slug or a lionfish with spread fins | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **keep away** | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **taste** | present | I | | | | | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **sting** | present | I | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Coral reef partners and tricksters: cl…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/2/) - next →: [Coral reef partners and tricksters: cl…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/4/) - ↑ 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/)