Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 1

A clownfish lives safely among the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone and chases away fish that would nibble it, a little cleaner fish swims into a big fish's open mouth to pick it clean, and a nearly blind shrimp digs a home that a goby fish guards.

Who acts: clownfish, fish, little cleaner fish, blind shrimp, goby fish · What happens: live, sting, chase away, nibble, swim, pick · To what, where: stinging tentacles, fish, clownfish, open mouth, home

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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, fish, little cleaner fish, blind shrimp), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clownfish	det
2	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	safely	safely	ADV	_	3 lives	advmod
5	among	among	ADP	_	8 tentacles	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tentacles	det
7	stinging	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 tentacles	amod
8	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lives	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 anemone	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 anemone	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 anemone	compound
12	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tentacles	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chases	cc
14	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lives	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 chases	compound:prt
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 chases	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 nibble	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 nibble	aux
19	nibble	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fish	acl:relcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 nibble	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swims	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fish	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fish	amod
24	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fish	compound
25	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 swims	nsubj
26	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lives	parataxis
27	into	into	ADP	_	33 mouth	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fish	det
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fish	amod
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mouth	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 fish	case
32	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 mouth	amod
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 swims	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 pick	mark
35	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 swims	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pick	obj
37	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pick	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 digs	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 digs	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 shrimp	det
41	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	42 blind	advmod
42	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 shrimp	amod
43	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 digs	nsubj
44	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 swims	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 home	det
46	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 digs	obj
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 guards	obj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 fish	det
49	goby	goby	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 fish	compound
50	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 guards	nsubj
51	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 home	acl:relcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	a clownfish		the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone	safely property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tentacle=Location
2	sting	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	chase away	present	a clownfish not said here	fish			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
4	nibble	would	fish	clownfish			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	swim	present	a little cleaner fish		a big fish's open mouth		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mouth=Destination
6	pick	to-infinitive	a little cleaner fish not said here	clownfish		clean property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	dig	present	a blind shrimp	a home			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent home=Theme
8	guard	present	a goby fish	a home			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary

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:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:1.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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