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title: Goldfish come from a wild carp of East Asia, and people in China kep… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics
description: Goldfish come from a wild carp of East Asia, and people in China kept rare golden ones more than a thousand years ago. Who acts: Goldfish, people. A sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 16

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Goldfish come from a wild carp of East Asia, and people in China kept rare golden ones more than a thousand years ago.

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**Who acts:** Goldfish, people · **What happens:** come, keep · **To what, where:** wild carp, rare golden ones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 (Goldfish, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:16
# text = Goldfish come from a wild carp of East Asia, and people in China kept rare golden ones more than a thousand years ago.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	carp	carp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
16	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	22	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked
24	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
25	.	.	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 | **come** | present | Goldfish |  |  | a wild carp of East Asia |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from carp=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **keep** | past | people in China | rare golden ones |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:16`.

**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 ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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