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title: Catch too many and there are not enough left to have babies, which i… — Where meat and fish come from, told honestly · tree and pragmatics
description: Catch too many and there are not enough left to have babies, which is what happened to the cod off Canada. Who acts: you, enough. A sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 8

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Catch too many and there are not enough left to have babies, which is what happened to the cod off Canada.

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**Who acts:** you, enough · **What happens:** catch, be, leave, have, happen · **To what, where:** many, babies

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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 (you, enough), 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:8
# text = Catch too many and there are not enough left to have babies, which is what happened to the cod off Canada.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
9	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	parataxis	_	_
17	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cod	cod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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** | imperative | you *not said here* | many |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | enough |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | babies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the cod off Canada | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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): R7-rel-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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