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title: Stand in front of the reef tank and it looks like a busy town under… — The aquarium: the coral reef tank · tree and pragmatics
description: Stand in front of the reef tank and it looks like a busy town under water: clownfish tucked into waving anemones, a blue tang like Dory gliding past, a cleaner wrasse swimming into a big fish's mouth and coming out safe. Who acts: you, tank, Dory, cleaner wrasse. A sentence of the lesson «The aquari
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# The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 0

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Stand in front of the reef tank and it looks like a busy town under water: clownfish tucked into waving anemones, a blue tang like Dory gliding past, a cleaner wrasse swimming into a big fish's mouth and coming out safe.

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**Who acts:** you, tank, Dory, cleaner wrasse · **What happens:** stand, look, tuck, wave, glide, swim · **To what, where:** front, clownfish, waving anemones, mouth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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 (you, tank, Dory, cleaner wrasse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:0
# text = Stand in front of the reef tank and it looks like a busy town under water: clownfish tucked into waving anemones, a blue tang like Dory gliding past, a cleaner wrasse swimming into a big fish's mouth and coming out safe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.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	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
19	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	anemones	anemone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tang	tang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Dory	dory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	past	past	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	wrasse	wrasse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
35	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	conj	_	_
44	out	out	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
45	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | front of the reef tank |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 2 | **look** | present | tank |  |  |  |  | like a busy town under water | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tuck** | participle |  | clownfish and a blue tang like Dory and a cleaner wrasse *not said here* |  | waving anemones |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into anemone=Destination |
| 4 | **wave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **glide** | gerund | Dory *not said here* |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **swim** | gerund | a cleaner wrasse *not said here* |  |  | a big fish's mouth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mouth=Destination |
| 7 | **come out** | gerund | a cleaner wrasse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out, safe *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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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**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.

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