Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 18

A wild goldfish has one tail fin; a fantail has a doubled tail, two tail fins side by side joined at the front.

Who acts: wild goldfish, fantail, doubled tail · What happens: have, double, join · To what, where: one tail fin, doubled tail, two tail fins, front

This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 (wild goldfish, fantail, doubled tail), 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 goldfish	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goldfish	amod
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fin	nummod
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fin	compound
7	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fantail	det
10	fantail	fantail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tail	det
13	doubled	double	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tail	amod
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 side	punct
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 fins	nummod
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fins	compound
18	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 joined	nsubj:pass
19	side	side	ADV	_	22 joined	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	19 side	fixed
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 side	fixed
22	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tail	acl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 front	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 front	det
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 joined	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	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	have	present	a wild goldfish	one tail fin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Patient
2	have	present	a fantail	a doubled tail			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	double	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	join	participle · passive	a doubled tail not said here	two tail fins	the front	side property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:18.

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): 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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