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title: Wild salmon are pink because they eat tiny shrimp with a pink colour… — Where meat and fish come from, told honestly · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild salmon are pink because they eat tiny shrimp with a pink colour in them, and farmed salmon get the same colour added to their food. Who acts: Wild salmon, pens, salmon. A sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 15

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Wild salmon are pink because they eat tiny shrimp with a pink colour in them, and farmed salmon get the same colour added to their food.

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**Who acts:** Wild salmon, pens, salmon · **What happens:** be, eat, farm, get, add · **To what, where:** tiny shrimp, same colour

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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 (Wild salmon, pens, salmon), 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:15
# text = Wild salmon are pink because they eat tiny shrimp with a pink colour in them, and farmed salmon get the same colour added to their food.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	farmed	farm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | present | Wild salmon |  |  |  |  | pink *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | pens *= pen* | tiny shrimp |  |  |  | with a pink colour in Fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Patient |
| 3 | **farm** | participle | Wild salmon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | salmon | the same colour |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the same colour *not said here* |  |  |  | to pens's food | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to food=Co-Patient |

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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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**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:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:15`.

**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. **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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