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title: Fish have many more small bones than mammals, such as the thin pin b… — Where meat and fish come from, told honestly · tree and pragmatics
description: Fish have many more small bones than mammals, such as the thin pin bones in salmon, while sharks have no bones at all, only bendy cartilage. Who acts: Fish, sharks. A sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 18

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Fish have many more small bones than mammals, such as the thin pin bones in salmon, while sharks have no bones at all, only bendy cartilage.

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**Who acts:** Fish, sharks · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** many more small bones, bones, all

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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, sharks), 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:18
# text = Fish have many more small bones than mammals, such as the thin pin bones in salmon, while sharks have no bones at all, only bendy cartilage.
# 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, 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	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	bendy	bendy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cartilage	cartilage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Fish | many more small bones |  |  |  | than mammals; such the thin pin bones in salmon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | sharks | no bones |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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**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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