The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 8

Fish need only as much food as they can eat in a couple of minutes; leftover food rots and makes the water cloudy and dirty.

Who acts: Fish, leftover food · What happens: need, eat, rot, make · To what, where: much food, couple, water

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, leftover food), 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 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 eat	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eat	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 food	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 couple	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 couple	det
13	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 minutes	case
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 couple	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 rots	punct
17	leftover	leftover	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 food	compound
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rots	nsubj
19	rots	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 makes	cc
21	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 rots	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 makes	obj
24	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 makes	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dirty	cc
26	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cloudy	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present	Fish	much food			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
2	eat	can	Fish		a couple of minutes		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rot	present	leftover food				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	make	present	leftover food not said here	the water		cloudy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product

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:8.

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): no change. 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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