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title: In Finding Nemo the anglerfish that chases Marlin and Dory is a good… — The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark · tree and pragmatics
description: In Finding Nemo the anglerfish that chases Marlin and Dory is a good likeness: a big female with a glowing lure on her head, and a real male anglerfish of some kinds is tiny and fuses onto the female for life. Who acts: anglerfish, real male anglerfish. A sentence of the lesson «The ocean: open sea,
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# The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark, sentence 4

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In Finding Nemo the anglerfish that chases Marlin and Dory is a good likeness: a big female with a glowing lure on her head, and a real male anglerfish of some kinds is tiny and fuses onto the female for life.

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**Who acts:** anglerfish, real male anglerfish · **What happens:** chase, be, glow, fuse · **To what, where:** Marlin, good likeness, Finding, female

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark» 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 (anglerfish, real male anglerfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:008-the-ocean.lesson:4
# text = In Finding Nemo the anglerfish that chases Marlin and Dory is a good likeness: a big female with a glowing lure on her head, and a real male anglerfish of some kinds is tiny and fuses onto the female for life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 008-the-ocean.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Finding	find	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	anglerfish	anglerfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Marlin	Marlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Dory	Dory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	lure	lure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	anglerfish	anglerfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	fuses	fuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
39	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | present | the anglerfish | Marlin and Dory |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marlin=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the anglerfish | a good likeness and a big female with a glowing lure on Dory's head |  | Finding |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | a real male anglerfish of some kinds |  |  |  |  | tiny *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fuse** | present | a real male anglerfish of some kinds *not said here* |  |  | the female for life |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:008-the-ocean.lesson:4`.

**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 ×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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