Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 13
Fish fingers are usually white fish such as cod, pollock or haddock, cut into blocks and breadcrumbed, and were first sold in Britain in 1955.
Who acts: Fish fingers · What happens: be, cut, breadcrumb, sell · To what, where: white fish, Britain
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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 fingers), 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=Sing | 2 fingers | compound |
| 2 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fish | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fish | cop |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 white | advmod |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fish | amod |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 cod | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | cod | cod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pollock | punct |
| 11 | pollock | pollock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cod | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 haddock | cc |
| 13 | haddock | haddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cod | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cut | punct |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fish | acl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 blocks | case |
| 17 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cut | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 breadcrumbed | cc |
| 19 | breadcrumbed | breadcrumb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 cut | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sold | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sold | cc |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sold | aux:pass |
| 23 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 sold | advmod |
| 24 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fish | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Britain | case |
| 26 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sold | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 1955 | case |
| 28 | 1955 | 1955 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 sold | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Fish fingers | white fish | such cod and pollock or haddock | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cut | participle | white fish not said here | into blocks | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into block=Patient | ||||
| 3 | breadcrumb | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sell | past · passive | Fish fingers not said here | Britain | in 1955; first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient» |
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:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:13.
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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