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title: Tropical fish such as angelfish and neon tetras need warm water kept… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the rig… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tropical fish such as angelfish and neon tetras need warm water kept steady by a heater, while goldfish need cooler water, so they are usually kept apart. Who acts: Tropical fish, goldfish. A sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» of the biology course
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# The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 7

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Tropical fish such as angelfish and neon tetras need warm water kept steady by a heater, while goldfish need cooler water, so they are usually kept apart.

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**Who acts:** Tropical fish, goldfish · **What happens:** need, keep · **To what, where:** warm water, cooler water, Fish

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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 (Tropical fish, goldfish), 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:7
# text = Tropical fish such as angelfish and neon tetras need warm water kept steady by a heater, while goldfish need cooler water, so they are usually kept apart.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	angelfish	angelfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	neon	neon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tetras	tetra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
9	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	heater	heater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
21	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
29	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Tropical fish such angelfish and neon tetras | warm water |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | participle |  | warm water *not said here* |  |  |  | by a heater; steady *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by heater=Location |
| 3 | **need** | present | goldfish | cooler water |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Fish |  |  |  | apart, usually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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 ×2, 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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