The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 7

Tropical fish such as angelfish and neon tetras need warm water kept steady by a heater, while goldfish need cooler water, so they are usually kept apart.

Who acts: Tropical fish, goldfish · What happens: need, keep · To what, where: warm water, cooler water, 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 (Tropical fish, goldfish), 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	Tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 need	nsubj
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	5 angelfish	case
4	as	as	ADP	_	3 such	fixed
5	angelfish	angelfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fish	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tetras	cc
7	neon	neon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tetras	compound
8	tetras	tetra	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 angelfish	conj
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 water	acl
13	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kept	xcomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 heater	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 heater	det
16	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 need	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 need	mark
19	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 need	nsubj
20	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 need	advcl
21	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 water	amod
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 need	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kept	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	28 kept	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kept	nsubj:pass
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 kept	aux:pass
27	usually	usually	ADV	_	28 kept	advmod
28	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 need	parataxis
29	apart	apart	ADV	_	28 kept	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Tropical fish such angelfish and neon tetras	warm water		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
2	keep	participle		warm water not said here	by a heater; steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by heater=Location
3	need	present	goldfish	cooler water		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
4	keep	present · passive		Fish	apart, usually property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:7.

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 ×2, 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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