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title: Fish fingers are usually white fish such as cod, pollock or haddock,… — Where meat and fish come from, told honestly · tree and pragmatics
description: Fish fingers are usually white fish such as cod, pollock or haddock, cut into blocks and breadcrumbed, and were first sold in Britain in 1955. Who acts: Fish fingers. A sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 13

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Fish fingers are usually white fish such as cod, pollock or haddock, cut into blocks and breadcrumbed, and were first sold in Britain in 1955.

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**Who acts:** Fish fingers · **What happens:** be, cut, breadcrumb, sell · **To what, where:** white fish, Britain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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 fingers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:13
# text = Fish fingers are usually white fish such as cod, pollock or haddock, cut into blocks and breadcrumbed, and were first sold in Britain in 1955.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.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	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	cod	cod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	pollock	pollock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	haddock	haddock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	breadcrumbed	breadcrumb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	advmod	_	_
24	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1955	1955	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Fish fingers | white fish |  |  |  | such cod and pollock or haddock | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | participle |  | white fish *not said here* |  |  |  | into blocks | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into block=Patient |
| 3 | **breadcrumb** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sell** | past · passive | Fish fingers *not said here* |  |  | Britain |  | in 1955; first *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient» |

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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): 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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