The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 10

Fish that are small enough to fit in another fish's mouth may be eaten, so owners check how big each fish will grow before putting them together.

Who acts: Fish, owners, big fish · What happens: be, fit, eat, check, grow, put · To what, where: mouth, Fish

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, owners, big fish), 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	15 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 small	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fish	acl:relcl
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fit	mark
7	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mouth	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 fish	case
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fit	obl
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 eaten	aux:pass
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 check	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 check	advmod
18	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 check	nsubj
19	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 eaten	conj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 big	advmod
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fish	amod
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 fish	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grow	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 grow	aux
25	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 check	ccomp
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 putting	mark
27	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 check	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 putting	obj
29	together	together	ADV	_	27 putting	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Fish			enough, small property	tree rules
2	fit	to-infinitive	Fish not said here		another fish's mouth		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in mouth=Trajectory
3	eat	may · passive		Fish			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	check	infinitive	owners				tree rules
5	grow	future	each big fish				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	put	gerund	owners not said here	Fish		together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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:10.

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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