Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 3
Fish live in their water, so whatever goes in it stays there: uneaten food rots and poisons the water, and that is why you feed only what they eat in a couple of minutes.
Who acts: Fish, whatever, that, you · What happens: live, go, stay, rot, poison, be · To what, where: water, animal, couple
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, whatever, that, you), 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 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 water | nmod:poss |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 goes | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 goes | advmod |
| 8 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 goes | nsubj |
| 9 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 stays | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 goes | obl |
| 12 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stays | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 rots | punct |
| 15 | uneaten | uneaten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rots | amod |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rots | compound |
| 17 | rots | rot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 poisons | cc |
| 19 | poisons | poison | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rots | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 poisons | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 why | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 why | cc |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 why | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 why | cop |
| 26 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 live | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 feed | nsubj |
| 28 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 why | advcl |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 what | advmod |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 feed | obj |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 eat | nsubj |
| 32 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 what | acl:relcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 couple | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 couple | det |
| 35 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eat | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 minutes | case |
| 37 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 couple | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Fish | Fish's water | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | present | whatever | animal | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | present | Fish not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rot | present | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | poison | present | the water | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | feed | present | you | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 8 | eat | present | Fish | a couple of minutes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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