Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 13

After the film many clownfish were taken from reefs for pet tanks, which left too few to lay eggs in some wild groups; most clownfish sold in shops today are bred in tanks.

Who acts: pet tanks, few · What happens: take, leave, lay, sell, breed · To what, where: many clownfish, reefs, few, eggs, wild groups, most clownfish

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 (pet tanks, few), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 film	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 film	det
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clownfish	amod
5	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taken	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 bred	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 reefs	case
9	reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taken	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 tanks	case
11	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tanks	compound
12	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taken	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 left	nsubj
15	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tanks	acl:relcl
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 few	advmod
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 left	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 lay	mark
19	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 few	xcomp
20	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lay	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 groups	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 groups	det
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 groups	amod
24	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lay	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 bred	punct
26	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 clownfish	amod
27	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bred	nsubj
28	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 clownfish	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 shops	case
30	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sold	obl
31	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sold	obl:unmarked
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 bred	aux:pass
33	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 tanks	case
35	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bred	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		many clownfish	reefs	after the film	for pet tanks	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme from reef=Source for tank=Asset
2	leave	past	pet tanks	few				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme
3	lay	to-infinitive	few not said here	eggs	some wild groups			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in group=Destination
4	sell	participle		most clownfish not said here	shops	today		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	breed	present · passive		most clownfish	tanks			tree rules

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:13.

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 ×3, R6-punct-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.

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