The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 2

That is why a brand-new tank filled with tap water and stocked with fish the same day often goes wrong: the helpful bacteria have not grown yet.

Who acts: That, brand new tank, helpful bacteria · What happens: be, fill, stock, go, not grow · To what, where: brand new tank

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 (That, brand new tank, helpful 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 why	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tank	det
5	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tank	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 brand	punct
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tank	amod
8	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 goes	nsubj
9	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tank	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 water	compound
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 filled	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stocked	cc
14	stocked	stock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 filled	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 fish	case
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stocked	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stocked	obl:unmarked
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 goes	advmod
21	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	parataxis
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 goes	xcomp
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 grown	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bacteria	det
25	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bacteria	amod
26	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grown	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 grown	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 grown	advmod
29	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 why	parataxis
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	29 grown	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			why property	tree rules
2	fill	participle		a brand new tank not said here		with tap water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument
3	stock	participle			day	with fish	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fish=Theme
4	go	present	a brand new tank			often, wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not grow	present · perfect	the helpful bacteria		yet		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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): R8-pos-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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