--- title: Fish need only as much food as they can eat in a couple of minutes;… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the rig… · tree and pragmatics description: Fish need only as much food as they can eat in a couple of minutes; leftover food rots and makes the water cloudy and dirty. Who acts: Fish, leftover food. 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 --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 8 Fish need only as much food as they can eat in a couple of minutes; leftover food rots and makes the water cloudy and dirty. **Who acts:** Fish, leftover food · **What happens:** need, eat, rot, make · **To what, where:** much food, couple, water 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 (Fish, leftover food), 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:8 # text = Fish need only as much food as they can eat in a couple of minutes; leftover food rots and makes the water cloudy and dirty. # 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): no change 1 Fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 leftover leftover NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 rots rot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 cloudy cloudy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Fish | much food | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | can | Fish | | | a couple of minutes | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rot** | present | leftover food | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | leftover food *not said here* | the water | | | | cloudy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product | 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:8`. **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): no change. **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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