Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 4

Clownfish live among the tentacles of sea anemones without getting stung; the clownfish chases away fish that eat anemones, and the anemone protects the clownfish, which rarely swims far from it.

Who acts: Clownfish, fish, anemone · What happens: live, sting, chase away, eat, protect, swim · To what, where: tentacles, fish, anemones, clownfish

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, anemone), 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 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	among	among	ADP	_	5 tentacles	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tentacles	det
5	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 anemones	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anemones	compound
8	anemones	anemone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tentacles	nmod
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 stung	mark
10	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stung	aux:pass
11	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 live	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 chases	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clownfish	det
14	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chases	nsubj
15	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 live	parataxis
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 chases	advmod
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chases	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 eat	nsubj
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fish	acl:relcl
20	anemones	anemone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 protects	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 protects	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 anemone	det
24	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 protects	nsubj
25	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 chases	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 clownfish	det
27	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 protects	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 swims	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 swims	nsubj
30	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	31 swims	advmod
31	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 clownfish	acl:relcl
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 swims	advmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 far	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Clownfish			the tentacles of sea anemones		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tentacle=Location
2	sting	gerund · passive	Clownfish not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	chase away	present	the clownfish	fish			away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
4	eat	present	fish	anemones				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anemone=Patient
5	protect	present	the anemone		the clownfish			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clownfish=Beneficiary
6	swim	present	the clownfish				far, rarely property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:4.

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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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