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title: Living plants use up some fish waste, add oxygen in the light and gi… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the rig… · tree and pragmatics
description: Living plants use up some fish waste, add oxygen in the light and give fish places to hide. Who acts: Living plants. A sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 15

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Living plants use up some fish waste, add oxygen in the light and give fish places to hide.

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**Who acts:** Living plants · **What happens:** live, use up, add, give, hide · **To what, where:** fish waste, oxygen, light, fish places

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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 (Living plants), 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:15
# text = Living plants use up some fish waste, add oxygen in the light and give fish places to hide.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use up** | present | Living plants | some fish waste |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Patient |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Living plants *not said here* | oxygen |  | the light |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive | Living plants *not said here* | fish places |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 5 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Living plants *not said here* | fish places *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:15`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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