Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 12

In a clownfish group the biggest fish is the female and the next biggest is the male; if the female is lost, the male becomes a female and the next fish becomes the male.

Who acts: biggest fish, next biggest, male, next fish · What happens: be, lose, become · To what, where: female, clownfish group, male

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 (biggest fish, next biggest, male, next fish), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 group	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 group	det
3	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 group	compound
4	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 female	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 female	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 female	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 female	det
10	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 male	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 biggest	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 biggest	amod
14	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 male	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 male	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 male	det
17	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 female	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 lost	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 lost	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 female	det
21	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lost	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux:pass
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 becomes	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 becomes	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 male	det
26	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 becomes	nsubj
27	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 female	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 female	det
29	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 becomes	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 becomes	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fish	det
32	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fish	amod
33	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 becomes	nsubj
34	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 becomes	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 male	det
36	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 becomes	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 female	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the biggest fish	the female and the male	a clownfish group	tree rules
2	is a	present	the next biggest	the male		tree rules
3	lose a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		the female		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	become	present	the male	a female		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	become	present	the next fish	the male		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:12.

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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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