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title: Around Newfoundland so many cod were caught that the fishing was clo… — Where meat and fish come from, told honestly · tree and pragmatics
description: Around Newfoundland so many cod were caught that the fishing was closed in 1992, thousands of people lost their jobs, and decades later the cod have still not fully come back. Who acts: thousands, cod. A sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» of the biology course of M
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# Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 16

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Around Newfoundland so many cod were caught that the fishing was closed in 1992, thousands of people lost their jobs, and decades later the cod have still not fully come back.

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**Who acts:** thousands, cod · **What happens:** catch, close, lose, not come back, job · **To what, where:** many cod, Newfoundland, fishing, jobs

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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 (thousands, cod), 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:16
# text = Around Newfoundland so many cod were caught that the fishing was closed in 1992, thousands of people lost their jobs, and decades later the cod have still not fully come back.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Newfoundland	Newfoundland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cod	cod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl:unmarked
25	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cod	cod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **catch** | past · passive |  | many cod |  | Newfoundland |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **close** | past · passive |  | the fishing |  |  |  | in 1992 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in 1992=Topic |
| 3 | **lose** | past | thousands of people | thousands's jobs |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **come back** | present · perfect | the cod |  |  |  | still | fully, late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **job** |  | thousands *= thousand* |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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