Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 7
Clownfish lay eggs on a rock beside their anemone, and the father fans and guards them, which keeps fresh water with oxygen flowing over them; they hatch in about a week, usually at night.
Who acts: Clownfish, father, oxygen · What happens: lay, fan, guard, keep, flow, hatch · To what, where: eggs, rock, Clownfish, fresh water
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, father, oxygen), 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 | Clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 7 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 anemone | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 anemone | nmod:poss |
| 9 | anemone | anemone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fans | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fans | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fans | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fans | nsubj |
| 14 | fans | fan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 guards | cc |
| 16 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fans | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 guards | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 keeps | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 keeps | nsubj |
| 20 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 them | acl:relcl |
| 21 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 water | amod |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keeps | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 oxygen | case |
| 24 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | nmod |
| 25 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 oxygen | acl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 flowing | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 hatch | punct |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 hatch | nsubj |
| 30 | hatch | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 week | case |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 34 week | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 week | det |
| 34 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hatch | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 night | punct |
| 36 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 38 night | advmod |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 night | case |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hatch | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Clownfish | eggs | a rock | beside Clownfish's anemone | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on rock=Destination | ||
| 2 | fan | present | father | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | guard | present | father not said here | Clownfish | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | fresh water | with oxygen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flow | gerund | oxygen not said here | over Clownfish | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location | ||||
| 6 | hatch | present | Clownfish | night; week | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: 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:7.
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 ×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.
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