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title: Real clownfish like Nemo live in warm sea water among anemones (soft… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the rig… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real clownfish like Nemo live in warm sea water among anemones (soft stinging sea animals that look like flowers), and after the Finding Nemo films many people were reported to buy clownfish they could not care for. Who acts: Real clownfish, soft stinging sea animals, people. A sentence of the lesso
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# The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 14

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Real clownfish like Nemo live in warm sea water among anemones (soft stinging sea animals that look like flowers), and after the Finding Nemo films many people were reported to buy clownfish they could not care for.

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**Who acts:** Real clownfish, soft stinging sea animals, people · **What happens:** live, sting, look, report, buy, not care · **To what, where:** warm sea water, many people, clownfish

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» 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 (Real clownfish, soft stinging sea animals, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.lesson:14
# text = Real clownfish like Nemo live in warm sea water among anemones (soft stinging sea animals that look like flowers), and after the Finding Nemo films many people were reported to buy clownfish they could not care for.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	anemones	anemone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
13	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:acl
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Finding	finding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Real clownfish like Nemo |  |  | warm sea water |  | among anemones | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
| 2 | **sting** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **look** | present | soft stinging sea animals |  |  |  |  | like flowers | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **report** | past · passive |  | many people |  |  | after the Finding films |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | clownfish |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clownfish=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **care** | could | people | clownfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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