The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 1
Fish breathe the oxygen dissolved in water through their gills, and their droppings make waste that would poison them if friendly bacteria in the filter did not turn it into something safer.
Who acts: Fish, droppings, waste, friendly bacteria · What happens: breathe, dissolve, make, poison, not turn · To what, where: oxygen, water, waste, droppings, something
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 (Fish, droppings, waste, friendly bacteria), 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 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 breathe | nsubj |
| 2 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oxygen | det |
| 4 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breathe | obj |
| 5 | dissolved | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 oxygen | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dissolved | obl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 gills | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 gills | nmod:poss |
| 10 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dissolved | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 droppings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | nsubj |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 breathe | conj |
| 16 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 poison | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 poison | aux |
| 19 | poison | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 waste | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 poison | obj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 turn | mark |
| 22 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bacteria | amod |
| 23 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turn | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 filter | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 filter | det |
| 26 | filter | filter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bacteria | nmod |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 turn | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 turn | advmod |
| 29 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 poison | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 turn | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 something | case |
| 32 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 turn | obl |
| 33 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 something | amod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breathe | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | Fish | the oxygen | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dissolve | participle | the oxygen not said here | water | through Fish's gills | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | present | Fish's droppings | waste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset waste=Product | ||||
| 4 | poison | would | waste | droppings = dropping | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not turn a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | friendly bacteria in the filter | waste | something | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into something=Trajectory |
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: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): no change. 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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