--- title: Fish have no eyelids, so they sleep with their eyes open, resting qu… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the rig… · tree and pragmatics description: Fish have no eyelids, so they sleep with their eyes open, resting quietly near the bottom or among plants, and some parrotfish wrap themselves in a bubble of slime to sleep. Who acts: Fish, parrotfish. A sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» of the bi --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 9 Fish have no eyelids, so they sleep with their eyes open, resting quietly near the bottom or among plants, and some parrotfish wrap themselves in a bubble of slime to sleep. **Who acts:** Fish, parrotfish · **What happens:** have, sleep, rest, wrap · **To what, where:** eyelids, bottom, Fish, bubble 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, parrotfish), 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:9 # text = Fish have no eyelids, so they sleep with their eyes open, resting quietly near the bottom or among plants, and some parrotfish wrap themselves in a bubble of slime to sleep. # 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 Fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 15 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 16 near near ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 among among ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 parrotfish parrotfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wrap wrap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bubble bubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **have** | present | Fish | no eyelids | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | | 2 | **sleep** | present | Fish | | | | | with Fish's eyes | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rest** | gerund | Fish *not said here* | | | the bottom or plants | | quietly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bottom=Location | | 4 | **wrap** | present | some parrotfish | Fish | | a bubble of slime | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in bubble=Destination | | 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | some parrotfish *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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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