--- title: Fish that are small enough to fit in another fish's mouth may be eat… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the rig… · tree and pragmatics description: Fish that are small enough to fit in another fish's mouth may be eaten, so owners check how big each fish will grow before putting them together. Who acts: Fish, owners, big fish. A sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours/10/) [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/) / [The fish tank: water, gills, heaters a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours/) / 10 # The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 10 Fish that are small enough to fit in another fish's mouth may be eaten, so owners check how big each fish will grow before putting them together. **Who acts:** Fish, owners, big fish · **What happens:** be, fit, eat, check, grow, put · **To what, where:** mouth, Fish This is a sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» 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 (Fish, owners, big fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.lesson:10 # text = Fish that are small enough to fit in another fish's mouth may be eaten, so owners check how big each fish will grow before putting them together. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.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 Fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 enough enough ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 together together ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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** | present | Fish | | | | | enough, small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fit** | to-infinitive | Fish *not said here* | | | another fish's mouth | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in mouth=Trajectory | | 3 | **eat** | may · passive | | Fish | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **check** | infinitive | owners | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | future | each big fish | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **put** | gerund | owners *not said here* | Fish | | | | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | 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:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.lesson:10`. **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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