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title: Clownfish live among stinging anemone tentacles without being stung,… — The aquarium: the coral reef tank · tree and pragmatics
description: Clownfish live among stinging anemone tentacles without being stung, thanks to a special slime; the fish gets safety and the anemone gets scraps and cleaning. Who acts: Clownfish, fish, anemone. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho
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# The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 5

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Clownfish live among stinging anemone tentacles without being stung, thanks to a special slime; the fish gets safety and the anemone gets scraps and cleaning.

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**Who acts:** Clownfish, fish, anemone · **What happens:** live, sting, get · **To what, where:** stinging anemone tentacles, safety, scraps

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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 (Clownfish, fish, anemone), 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:5
# text = Clownfish live among stinging anemone tentacles without being stung, thanks to a special slime; the fish gets safety and the anemone gets scraps and cleaning.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl
5	anemone	anemone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	discourse	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
20	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	anemone	anemone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Clownfish |  |  | stinging anemone tentacles |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tentacle=Location |
| 2 | **sting** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sting** | gerund · passive | Clownfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **get** | present | the fish | safety |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer safety=Stimulus |
| 5 | **get** | present | the anemone | scraps and cleaning |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scrap=Stimulus |

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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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:5`.

**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 ×2, 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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