Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 4

Long ago people in China noticed rare golden fish among dull grey-green wild carp, kept the brightest in ponds and let them have babies, until the colours grew strong.

Who acts: people, colours · What happens: notice, keep, let, have, grow · To what, where: rare golden fish, brightest, ponds, people, babies

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 (people, colours), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 noticed	advmod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 noticed	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 China	case
5	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
6	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fish	amod
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fish	amod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noticed	obj
10	among	among	ADP	_	16 carp	case
11	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 carp	amod
12	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carp	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 grey	punct
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 carp	amod
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 carp	amod
16	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noticed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 noticed	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brightest	det
20	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 kept	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 ponds	case
22	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kept	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kept	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grew	punct
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 grew	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 colours	det
31	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grew	nsubj
32	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 let	advcl
33	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 grew	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 noticed	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	notice	past	people in China	rare golden fish		among dull grey green wild carp; ago property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
2	keep	past		the brightest	ponds		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bright=Theme in pond=Location
3	let	past		people			tree rules
4	have	infinitive	people not said here	babies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
5	grow	past	the colours			strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:4.

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 ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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