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title: Finding Nemo got some things right and some wrong: clownfish do live… — The aquarium: the coral reef tank · tree and pragmatics
description: Finding Nemo got some things right and some wrong: clownfish do live safely in stinging anemones, but in a real clownfish family, when the mother dies, the father turns into a female, and fish like Dory are not forgetful at all. Who acts: Finding, clownfish, mother, father. A sentence of the lesson 
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# The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 2

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Finding Nemo got some things right and some wrong: clownfish do live safely in stinging anemones, but in a real clownfish family, when the mother dies, the father turns into a female, and fish like Dory are not forgetful at all.

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**Who acts:** Finding, clownfish, mother, father, fish · **What happens:** find, get, live, sting, die, turn · **To what, where:** things, anemones, female, all

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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 (Finding, clownfish, mother, father), 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:2
# text = Finding Nemo got some things right and some wrong: clownfish do live safely in stinging anemones, but in a real clownfish family, when the mother dies, the father turns into a female, and fish like Dory are not forgetful at all.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
14	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	anemones	anemone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
24	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Dory	Dory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	forgetful	forgetful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	obl	_	_
47	.	.	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 | **find** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | Finding | some things |  |  |  | right *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** | present · do-support | clownfish |  |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sting** | gerund | clownfish *not said here* | anemones |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anemone=Experiencer |
| 5 | **die** | present | the mother |  |  |  |  | in a real clownfish family | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in family=Attribute |
| 6 | **turn** | present | the father |  |  | a female |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into female=Trajectory |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | fish like Dory |  |  | all |  | forgetful *property* | tree rules |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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