Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 6
Blue tangs often feed in groups, grazing algae off coral and rocks, which helps them push past fish guarding their own algae patches and stops algae smothering the coral.
Who acts: Blue tangs, tangs, fish, algae · What happens: feed, graze, help, push, guard, stop · To what, where: groups, algae, tangs, own algae patches, coral
This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» 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 (Blue tangs, tangs, fish, algae), 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 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tangs | amod |
| 2 | tangs | tang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feed | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 feed | advmod |
| 4 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 groups | case |
| 6 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grazing | punct |
| 8 | grazing | graze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 feed | advcl |
| 9 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grazing | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 coral | case |
| 11 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 algae | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rocks | cc |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 coral | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 helps | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 helps | nsubj |
| 16 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feed | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 helps | obj |
| 18 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 helps | xcomp |
| 19 | past | past | ADP | _ | 20 fish | case |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 push | obl |
| 21 | guarding | guard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 fish | acl |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 patches | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 patches | amod |
| 24 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 patches | compound |
| 25 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 guarding | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stops | cc |
| 27 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 patches | conj |
| 28 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 guarding | obj |
| 29 | smothering | smother | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 algae | acl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 coral | det |
| 31 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 smothering | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | Blue tangs | groups | often property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location | |||
| 2 | graze | gerund | Blue tangs not said here | algae | off coral and rocks | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | help | present | tangs = tang | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | push | infinitive | tangs = tang not said here | past fish | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past fish=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | guard | gerund | fish not said here | tangs's own algae patches | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stop | present | fish not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | smother | gerund | algae not said here | the coral | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coral=Destination |
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:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.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): R5-strong ×5, R8-pos-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.
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