--- title: The sailfish is one of the fastest fish, uses its long thin body and… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: The sailfish is one of the fastest fish, uses its long thin body and sail to hunt, and changes colour when hunting in groups. Who acts: sailfish. A sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Record-breakers: the fastest and the s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest/) / 8 # Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest, sentence 8 The sailfish is one of the fastest fish, uses its long thin body and sail to hunt, and changes colour when hunting in groups. **Who acts:** sailfish · **What happens:** be, use, hunt, change · **To what, where:** one, long thin body, colour, groups This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest» 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 (sailfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:8 # text = The sailfish is one of the fastest fish, uses its long thin body and sail to hunt, and changes colour when hunting in groups. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sailfish sailfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 10 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sail sail NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 24 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the sailfish | one | | | | of the fastest fish | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | the sailfish *not said here* | sailfish's long thin body and sail | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | | 3 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | the sailfish *not said here* | sailfish's long thin body and sail *not said here* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **change** | present | the sailfish *not said here* | colour | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 5 | **hunt** | gerund | the sailfish *not said here* | | | groups | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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