The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 11

Betta fish need more room than a tiny bowl, plus warm, filtered water, and male bettas fight each other, so they are kept one male per tank.

Who acts: Betta fish, male bettas · What happens: need, filter, fight, keep · To what, where: more room, each, 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 (Betta fish, male bettas), 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	Betta	betta	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	compound
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 room	amod
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 bowl	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bowl	det
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bowl	amod
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 room	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 water	punct
11	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	15 water	cc
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 warm	punct
14	filtered	filter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bowl	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fight	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fight	cc
18	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bettas	amod
19	bettas	betta	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fight	nsubj
20	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	conj
21	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	20 fight	obj
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 each	fixed
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kept	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 kept	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kept	nsubj:pass
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 kept	aux:pass
27	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 need	parataxis
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 male	nummod
29	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kept	obj
30	per	per	ADP	_	31 tank	case
31	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 male	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Betta fish	more room	than a tiny bowl plus warm filtered water	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot room=Theme
2	filter	participle				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	fight	present	male bettas	each		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent
4	keep	present · passive		Fish		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme male=Attribute

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:11.

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): 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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