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title: Fancy goldfish with bubble eyes, puffy heads or double tails were br… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics
description: Fancy goldfish with bubble eyes, puffy heads or double tails were bred by people, and some swim slowly or see badly. Who acts: people, some. 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 the pr
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# Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 17

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Fancy goldfish with bubble eyes, puffy heads or double tails were bred by people, and some swim slowly or see badly.

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**Who acts:** people, some · **What happens:** breed, swim, see · **To what, where:** Fancy goldfish

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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 (people, some), 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:17
# text = Fancy goldfish with bubble eyes, puffy heads or double tails were bred by people, and some swim slowly or see badly.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	puffy	puffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
10	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
19	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
22	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
23	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **breed** | past · passive | people | Fancy goldfish with bubble eyes or puffy heads and double tails |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | present | some |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:17`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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