Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 16
Fish should get only as much food as they eat in a couple of minutes, because leftovers rot and poison the water.
Who acts: Fish, leftovers · What happens: get, eat, rot, poison · To what, where: much food, couple, water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday 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, leftovers), 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 | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 food | amod |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | 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 rot | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 rot | mark |
| 18 | leftovers | leftover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rot | nsubj |
| 19 | rot | rot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 poison | cc |
| 21 | poison | poison | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 rot | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 poison | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | should | Fish | much food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | Fish | a couple of minutes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rot | present | leftovers | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | poison | present | leftovers not said here | the water | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:everyday:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.lesson:16.
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. 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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