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title: That is why a brand-new tank filled with tap water and stocked with… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the rig… · tree and pragmatics
description: That is why a brand-new tank filled with tap water and stocked with fish the same day often goes wrong: the helpful bacteria have not grown yet. Who acts: That, brand new tank, helpful bacteria. A sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» of the biology c
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# The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 2

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That is why a brand-new tank filled with tap water and stocked with fish the same day often goes wrong: the helpful bacteria have not grown yet.

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**Who acts:** That, brand new tank, helpful bacteria · **What happens:** be, fill, stock, go, not grow · **To what, where:** brand new tank

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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 (That, brand new tank, helpful bacteria), 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:2
# text = That is why a brand-new tank filled with tap water and stocked with fish the same day often goes wrong: the helpful bacteria have not grown yet.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
9	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stocked	stock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
30	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  | a brand new tank *not said here* |  |  |  | with tap water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
| 3 | **stock** | participle |  |  |  |  | day | with fish | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fish=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | present | a brand new tank |  |  |  |  | often, wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **grow** | present · perfect | the helpful bacteria |  |  |  | yet |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:2`.

**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): 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.

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

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