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title: In Finding Nemo Marlin raises Nemo alone after Nemo's mum dies; real… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics
description: In Finding Nemo Marlin raises Nemo alone after Nemo's mum dies; real clownfish all hatch as males, and when the female of a group dies, the biggest male turns into the new female, so real Marlin would have become Nemo's mum. Who acts: Marlin, mum, real clownfish, female. A sentence of the lesson «Co
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# Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 3

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In Finding Nemo Marlin raises Nemo alone after Nemo's mum dies; real clownfish all hatch as males, and when the female of a group dies, the biggest male turns into the new female, so real Marlin would have become Nemo's mum.

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**Who acts:** Marlin, mum, real clownfish, female, biggest male, real Marlin · **What happens:** find, raise, die, hatch, turn, become · **To what, where:** Nemo, new female, mum

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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 (Marlin, mum, real clownfish, female), 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:3
# text = In Finding Nemo Marlin raises Nemo alone after Nemo's mum dies; real clownfish all hatch as males, and when the female of a group dies, the biggest male turns into the new female, so real Marlin would have become Nemo's mum.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
2	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl
3	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Marlin	Marlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
17	hatch	hatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
40	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Marlin	Marlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux	_	_
44	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:conj
45	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	xcomp	_	_
48	.	.	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 | **find** | gerund | Marlin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **raise** | present | Marlin | Nemo |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nemo=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | present | Nemo's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **hatch** | present | all real clownfish |  |  |  |  | as males | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** | present | the female of a group |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **turn** | present | the biggest male |  |  | the new female |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into female=Trajectory |
| 7 | **become** | would · perfect | real Marlin | Nemo's mum |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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