Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 8
Newly hatched clownfish drift in the open sea as tiny larvae for about one or two weeks, then find a reef by its smell and crackling sound and swim to it.
Who acts: hatched clownfish, reef · What happens: hatch, drift, find, crackle, swim, smell · To what, where: open sea, reef
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 (hatched clownfish, reef), 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 | Newly | newly | ADV | _ | 2 hatched | advmod |
| 2 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clownfish | amod |
| 3 | clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drift | nsubj |
| 4 | drift | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sea | amod |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drift | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 larvae | case |
| 10 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 larvae | amod |
| 11 | larvae | larva | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drift | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 weeks | case |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 weeks | nummod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 two | cc |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 one | conj |
| 17 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drift | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 find | advmod |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 drift | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 reef | det |
| 22 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 smell | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 smell | nmod:poss |
| 25 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 crackling | cc |
| 27 | crackling | crackle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 find | conj |
| 28 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 smell | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 swim | cc |
| 30 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 find | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 swim | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drift | 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 | hatch | participle | newly property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | drift | present | hatched clownfish | the open sea | week | as tiny larvae | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | find | infinitive | hatched clownfish not said here | a reef | then | by reef's smell and sound | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reef=Topic | ||
| 4 | crackle | gerund | hatched clownfish not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | swim | infinitive | hatched clownfish not said here | reef | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination | ||||
| 6 | smell | reef | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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