Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 6

Real clownfish spend nearly all their lives within a few metres of their anemone, because leaving its tentacles is dangerous for a small fish.

Who acts: Real clownfish, leaving · What happens: spend, leave, be · To what, where: lives, tentacles

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 (Real clownfish, leaving), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clownfish	amod
2	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spend	nsubj
3	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 lives	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lives	nmod:poss
7	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spend	obj
8	within	within	ADP	_	11 metres	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 metres	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 metres	amod
11	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spend	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 anemone	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 anemone	nmod:poss
14	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 metres	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dangerous	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 dangerous	mark
17	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 dangerous	csubj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tentacles	nmod:poss
19	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 leaving	obj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dangerous	cop
21	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spend	advcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 fish	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fish	det
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fish	amod
25	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dangerous	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spend	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spend	present	Real clownfish	Clownfish's lives	within a few metres of Clownfish's anemone	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset
2	leave	gerund		animal's tentacles		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Theme
3	is	present	leaving		for a small fish; dangerous property	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: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): 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.

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