The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 6

Fish take oxygen from water through their gills, and a filter, moving water and air bubbles help mix more oxygen into the water.

Who acts: Fish, water bubbles · What happens: take, move, help, mix · To what, where: oxygen, water, more oxygen

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, water bubbles), 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 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 gills	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gills	nmod:poss
8	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 filter	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 filter	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 filter	det
12	filter	filter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gills	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 moving	punct
14	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 take	advcl
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bubbles	compound
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 air	cc
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 water	conj
18	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 help	nsubj
19	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 take	conj
20	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 help	xcomp
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 oxygen	amod
22	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mix	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mix	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	Fish	oxygen	water	through Fish's gills and a filter	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme from water=Initial_Location
2	move	gerund	Fish not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	help	present	water bubbles				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	mix	infinitive	water bubbles not said here	more oxygen		into the water	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient into water=Co-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:6.

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, 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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