The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 4
A good owner also checks what each fish needs, warm or cool water, fresh or salt, and how big it will grow, because a fish that fits in another fish's mouth may become its dinner.
Who acts: good owner, fish, owner · What happens: check, need, grow, fit, become · To what, where: warm water, mouth, dinner
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 (good owner, fish, owner), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 owner | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 owner | amod |
| 3 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 checks | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 checks | advmod |
| 5 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 needs | obj |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | nsubj |
| 9 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 checks | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 water | punct |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 water | amod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 cool | cc |
| 13 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warm | conj |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fresh | punct |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 needs | parataxis |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 salt | cc |
| 18 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fresh | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grow | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grow | cc |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 big | advmod |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grow | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 grow | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 grow | aux |
| 25 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 fresh | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 become | punct |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 become | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fish | det |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 become | nsubj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 fits | nsubj |
| 31 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 fish | acl:relcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 mouth | case |
| 33 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 fish | det |
| 34 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 fish | case |
| 36 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fits | obl |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 become | aux |
| 38 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 grow | conj |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 40 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 become | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 checks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present | a good owner | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | need | present | each fish | warm water | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | future | owner | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fit | present | a fish | another fish's mouth | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in mouth=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | become | may | a fish | owner's dinner | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:4.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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