--- title: A good owner also checks what each fish needs, warm or cool water, f… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the rig… · tree and pragmatics description: A good owner also checks what each fish needs, warm or cool water, fresh or salt, and how big it will grow, because a fish that fits in another fish's mouth may become its dinner. Who acts: good owner, fish, owner. A sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbou --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 4 A good owner also checks what each fish needs, warm or cool water, fresh or salt, and how big it will grow, because a fish that fits in another fish's mouth may become its dinner. **Who acts:** good owner, fish, owner · **What happens:** check, need, grow, fit, become · **To what, where:** warm water, mouth, dinner 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 (good owner, fish, owner), 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:4 # text = A good owner also checks what each fish needs, warm or cool water, fresh or salt, and how big it will grow, because a fish that fits in another fish's mouth may become its dinner. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 grow grow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obj 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | present | a good owner | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | each fish | warm water | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | future | owner | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fit** | present | a fish | | | another fish's mouth | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in mouth=Trajectory | | 5 | **become** | may | a fish | owner's dinner | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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