--- title: Betta fish need more room than a tiny bowl, plus warm, filtered wate… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the rig… · tree and pragmatics description: Betta fish need more room than a tiny bowl, plus warm, filtered water, and male bettas fight each other, so they are kept one male per tank. Who acts: Betta fish, male bettas. A sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» of the biology course of Mova's pri --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 11 Betta fish need more room than a tiny bowl, plus warm, filtered water, and male bettas fight each other, so they are kept one male per tank. **Who acts:** Betta fish, male bettas · **What happens:** need, filter, fight, keep · **To what, where:** more room, each, 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 (Betta fish, male bettas), 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:11 # text = Betta fish need more room than a tiny bowl, plus warm, filtered water, and male bettas fight each other, so they are kept one male per tank. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Betta betta NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 filtered filter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 bettas betta NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 20 obj _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 fixed _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 per per ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Betta fish | more room | | | | than a tiny bowl plus warm filtered water | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot room=Theme | | 2 | **filter** | participle | | | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fight** | present | male bettas | each | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | | 4 | **keep** | present · passive | | Fish | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme male=Attribute | 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:11`. **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): R7-rel-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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