---
title: Cleaner wrasse eat parasites off bigger fish at «cleaning stations»;… — Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cleaner wrasse eat parasites off bigger fish at «cleaning stations»; sometimes they cheat by biting healthy skin, and they cheat less when other fish are watching. Who acts: Cleaner wrasse, parasites, other fish. A sentence of the lesson «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings/13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Team players and partners: meerkats, n…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings/) / 13

# Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 13

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cleaner wrasse eat parasites off bigger fish at «cleaning stations»; sometimes they cheat by biting healthy skin, and they cheat less when other fish are watching.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Cleaner wrasse, parasites, other fish · **What happens:** eat, cheat, bite, watch · **To what, where:** parasites, cleaning stations, healthy skin

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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 (Cleaner wrasse, parasites, other fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:13
# text = Cleaner wrasse eat parasites off bigger fish at «cleaning stations»; sometimes they cheat by biting healthy skin, and they cheat less when other fish are watching.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wrasse	wrasse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	parasites	parasite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cheat	cheat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cheat	cheat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
25	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Cleaner wrasse | parasites |  | cleaning stations |  | off bigger fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parasite=Patient |
| 2 | **cheat** | present | parasites *= parasite* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bite** | gerund | parasites *= parasite* *not said here* | healthy skin |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
| 4 | **cheat** | present | parasites *= parasite* |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **watch** | present · progressive | other fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:13`.

**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, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Team players and partners: meerkats, n…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings/12/)
- next →: [Team players and partners: meerkats, n…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings/14/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings/)

