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title: Clownfish live among the tentacles of sea anemones without getting s… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Clownfish live among the tentacles of sea anemones without getting stung; the clownfish chases away fish that eat anemones, and the anemone protects the clownfish, which rarely swims far from it. Who acts: Clownfish, fish, anemone. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownf
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# Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 4

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Clownfish live among the tentacles of sea anemones without getting stung; the clownfish chases away fish that eat anemones, and the anemone protects the clownfish, which rarely swims far from it.

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**Who acts:** Clownfish, fish, anemone · **What happens:** live, sting, chase away, eat, protect, swim · **To what, where:** tentacles, fish, anemones, clownfish

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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 (Clownfish, fish, anemone), 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:4
# text = Clownfish live among the tentacles of sea anemones without getting stung; the clownfish chases away fish that eat anemones, and the anemone protects the clownfish, which rarely swims far from it.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	anemones	anemone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	getting	get	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
14	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	anemones	anemone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	anemone	anemone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	swims	swim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **live** | present | Clownfish |  |  | the tentacles of sea anemones |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tentacle=Location |
| 2 | **sting** | gerund · passive | Clownfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **chase away** | present | the clownfish | fish |  |  |  | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | present | fish | anemones |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anemone=Patient |
| 5 | **protect** | present | the anemone |  | the clownfish |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clownfish=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **swim** | present | the clownfish |  |  |  |  | far, rarely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R2-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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