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title: Jellyfish are not fish: they are relatives of corals and sea anemone… — The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jellyfish are not fish: they are relatives of corals and sea anemones, and fish have backbones, gills and fins while jellyfish have none of these. Who acts: Jellyfish, fish. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 6

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Jellyfish are not fish: they are relatives of corals and sea anemones, and fish have backbones, gills and fins while jellyfish have none of these.

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**Who acts:** Jellyfish, fish · **What happens:** not be, be, have · **To what, where:** fish, relatives, backbones, none

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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 (Jellyfish, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:6
# text = Jellyfish are not fish: they are relatives of corals and sea anemones, and fish have backbones, gills and fins while jellyfish have none of these.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	corals	coral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	anemones	anemone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	backbones	backbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **not** **is a** | present | Jellyfish | fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | jellyfish | relatives |  |  |  | of corals and sea anemones | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | fish | backbones and gills and fins |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present | jellyfish | none |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=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:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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