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title: Cleaner wrasse pick parasites and dead skin off big fish, even insid… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics
description: Cleaner wrasse pick parasites and dead skin off big fish, even inside their mouths, and the big fish does not eat its cleaner, so both win. Who acts: Cleaner wrasse, big fish, both. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with
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# Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 11

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Cleaner wrasse pick parasites and dead skin off big fish, even inside their mouths, and the big fish does not eat its cleaner, so both win.

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**Who acts:** Cleaner wrasse, big fish, both · **What happens:** pick, not eat, win · **To what, where:** parasites, cleaner

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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, big fish, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:11
# text = Cleaner wrasse pick parasites and dead skin off big fish, even inside their mouths, and the big fish does not eat its cleaner, so both win.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wrasse	wrasse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	parasites	parasite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
29	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **pick** | present | Cleaner wrasse | parasites and dead skin and parasites's mouths |  |  |  | off big fish | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parasite=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | the big fish | fish's cleaner |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaner=Patient |
| 3 | **win** | present | both |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:11`.

**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, 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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