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title: The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is one of the largest aquariums in t… — Famous zoos in the USA and the UK · tree and pragmatics
description: The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is one of the largest aquariums in the world; its main tank holds millions of litres and keeps whale sharks and manta rays, though critics say even it is too small for whale sharks, which swim across whole oceans. Who acts: Georgia Aquarium, main tank, critics, tank. 
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# Famous zoos in the USA and the UK, sentence 13

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The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is one of the largest aquariums in the world; its main tank holds millions of litres and keeps whale sharks and manta rays, though critics say even it is too small for whale sharks, which swim across whole oceans.

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**Who acts:** Georgia Aquarium, main tank, critics, tank, whale sharks · **What happens:** be, hold, keep, say, swim · **To what, where:** one, millions, whale sharks, whole oceans · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» 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 (Georgia Aquarium, main tank, critics, tank), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk.lesson:13
# text = The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is one of the largest aquariums in the world; its main tank holds millions of litres and keeps whale sharks and manta rays, though critics say even it is too small for whale sharks, which swim across whole oceans.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Aquarium	Aquarium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	aquariums	aquarium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	manta	manta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	ccomp	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	across	across	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	oceans	ocean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta | one |  |  |  | of the largest aquariums in the world | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | world's main tank | millions of litres |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | present | world's main tank *not said here* | whale sharks and manta rays |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | critics |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | tank |  |  |  |  | for whale sharks; small *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **swim** | present | whale sharks |  |  | whole oceans |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across ocean=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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