The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 14
Real clownfish like Nemo live in warm sea water among anemones (soft stinging sea animals that look like flowers), and after the Finding Nemo films many people were reported to buy clownfish they could not care for.
Who acts: Real clownfish, soft stinging sea animals, people · What happens: live, sting, look, report, buy, not care · To what, where: warm sea water, many people, clownfish
This is a sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» 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 (Real clownfish, soft stinging sea animals, people), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clownfish | amod |
| 2 | clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 Nemo | case |
| 4 | Nemo | Nemo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 clownfish | nmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | compound |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 anemones | case |
| 11 | anemones | anemone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 animals | punct |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animals | amod |
| 14 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 animals | amod |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 animals | compound |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 anemones | appos |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 look | nsubj |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 animals | acl:relcl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 flowers | case |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 look | obl |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 animals | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 reported | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 reported | cc |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 films | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 films | det |
| 26 | Finding | finding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 films | compound |
| 27 | Nemo | Nemo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Finding | flat |
| 28 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 reported | obl |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 reported | aux:pass |
| 32 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 live | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 buy | mark |
| 34 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 reported | xcomp |
| 35 | clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 buy | obj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 care | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 care | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 care | advmod |
| 39 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 clownfish | acl:relcl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 care | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Real clownfish like Nemo | warm sea water | among anemones | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | |||
| 2 | sting | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | look | present | soft stinging sea animals | like flowers | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | report | past · passive | many people | after the Finding films | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | buy | to-infinitive | clownfish | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clownfish=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not care | could | people | clownfish not said here | tree rules |
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:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.lesson:14.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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