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title: All clownfish hatch as males, and the biggest one in a group can tur… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics
description: All clownfish hatch as males, and the biggest one in a group can turn into the female. Who acts: clownfish, biggest one. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 6

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All clownfish hatch as males, and the biggest one in a group can turn into the female.

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**Who acts:** clownfish, biggest one · **What happens:** hatch, turn · **To what, where:** female

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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 (clownfish, biggest one), 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:6
# text = All clownfish hatch as males, and the biggest one in a group can turn into the female.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hatch	hatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **hatch** | present | all clownfish |  |  |  |  | as males | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | can | the biggest one in a group |  |  | the female |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into female=Trajectory |

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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:6`.

**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): 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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