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title: Many reef fish have a false eye spot near the tail, so a hunter stri… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many reef fish have a false eye spot near the tail, so a hunter strikes at the wrong end while the fish darts away. Who acts: Many reef fish, hunter, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» of the biology course of Mova's primary s
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# Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 8

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Many reef fish have a false eye spot near the tail, so a hunter strikes at the wrong end while the fish darts away.

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**Who acts:** Many reef fish, hunter, fish · **What happens:** have, strike, dart away · **To what, where:** false eye spot, tail

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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 (Many reef fish, hunter, fish), 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:8
# text = Many reef fish have a false eye spot near the tail, so a hunter strikes at the wrong end while the fish darts away.
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound
16	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound
24	darts	dart	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Many reef fish | a false eye spot |  | the tail |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient |
| 2 | **strike** | present | a hunter |  |  |  | at the wrong end |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at end=Patient |
| 3 | **dart away** | present | the fish |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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**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:8`.

**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 ×3, 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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