--- title: Goldfish dumped in lakes can grow as big as a football, eat other fi… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics description: Goldfish dumped in lakes can grow as big as a football, eat other fishes' eggs, stir up mud and crowd out native fish, and over generations they often turn dull again, partly because birds spot and catch the bright ones first. Who acts: Goldfish, birds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goldfish, birds), 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:19 # text = Goldfish dumped in lakes can grow as big as a football, eat other fishes' eggs, stir up mud and crowd out native fish, and over generations they often turn dull again, partly because birds spot and catch the bright ones first. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Goldfish goldfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 dumped dump VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fishes fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound 16 ' 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 stir stir VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 crowd crowd VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 often often ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 34 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 again again ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 partly partly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 because because SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 spot spot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 46 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 42 advmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dump** | participle | | Goldfish *not said here* | | lakes | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in lake=Trajectory | | 2 | **grow** | can | Goldfish | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* | other fishes's eggs | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | | 4 | **stir up** | infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* | mud | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mud=Patient | | 5 | **crowd out** | infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* | | native fish | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme fish=Destination | | 6 | **turn** | present | Goldfish | | | | over generations; again | dull, often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over generation=Trajectory | | 7 | **spot** | present | birds | | | | | partly *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 8 | **catch** | present | birds *not said here* | the bright ones | | | | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | 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. **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:19`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. 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