Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 1
A clownfish is safe because a layer of slimy mucus covers its skin, and it touches the anemone carefully at first while its mucus slowly changes, until the stings stop firing at it.
Who acts: clownfish, layer, mucus, stings · What happens: be, cover, touch, change, stop, fire · To what, where: skin, anemone, layer
This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» 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, layer, mucus, stings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 clownfish | det |
| 2 | clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 safe | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | cop |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 covers | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 layer | det |
| 7 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covers | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mucus | case |
| 9 | slimy | slimy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mucus | amod |
| 10 | mucus | mucus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 layer | nmod |
| 11 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | advcl |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 skin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covers | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 touches | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 touches | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 touches | nsubj |
| 17 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 anemone | det |
| 19 | anemone | anemone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touches | obj |
| 20 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 17 touches | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 first | case |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 touches | advmod |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 changes | mark |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mucus | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mucus | mucus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 changes | nsubj |
| 26 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 27 changes | advmod |
| 27 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 touches | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stop | punct |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 32 stop | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stings | det |
| 31 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 stop | nsubj |
| 32 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 touches | advcl |
| 33 | firing | fire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 stop | xcomp |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 firing | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a clownfish | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | present | a layer of slimy mucus | layer's skin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skin=Destination | ||||
| 3 | touch | present | layer | the anemone | carefully, first property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anemone=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | change | present | layer's mucus | slowly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stop | present | the stings | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | fire | gerund | the stings not said here | layer | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at it=Destination |
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.
Licence: CC 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:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.lesson:1.
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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