The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 2
Finding Nemo got some things right and some wrong: clownfish do live safely in stinging anemones, but in a real clownfish family, when the mother dies, the father turns into a female, and fish like Dory are not forgetful at all.
Who acts: Finding, clownfish, mother, father, fish · What happens: find, get, live, sting, die, turn · To what, where: things, anemones, female, all
This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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 (Finding, clownfish, mother, father), 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 | Finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | csubj |
| 2 | Nemo | Nemo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Finding | flat |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 things | det |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wrong | cc |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 wrong | det |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 11 | clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 live | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | aux |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | conj |
| 14 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 13 live | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 stinging | mark |
| 16 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 live | advcl |
| 17 | anemones | anemone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stinging | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dies | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 dies | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 family | det |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 family | amod |
| 23 | clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 family | compound |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dies | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 family | punct |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 dies | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mother | det |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dies | nsubj |
| 29 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 turns | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 father | det |
| 32 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turns | nsubj |
| 33 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 dies | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 female | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 female | det |
| 36 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turns | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 forgetful | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 forgetful | cc |
| 39 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 forgetful | nsubj |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 Dory | case |
| 41 | Dory | Dory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 fish | nmod |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 forgetful | cop |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 forgetful | advmod |
| 44 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 turns | conj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 all | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 forgetful | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | get | past | Finding | some things | right property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | live | present · do-support | clownfish | safely property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sting | gerund | clownfish not said here | anemones | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anemone=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | die | present | the mother | in a real clownfish family | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in family=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | turn | present | the father | a female | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into female=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | not is | present | fish like Dory | all | forgetful property | 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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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