--- title: Long ago people in China noticed rare golden fish among dull grey-gr… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics description: Long ago people in China noticed rare golden fish among dull grey-green wild carp, kept the brightest in ponds and let them have babies, until the colours grew strong. Who acts: people, colours. 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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 (people, colours), 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:4 # text = Long ago people in China noticed rare golden fish among dull grey-green wild carp, kept the brightest in ponds and let them have babies, until the colours grew strong. # 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 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 among among ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 11 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 12 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 33 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 . . 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 | **notice** | past | people in China | rare golden fish | | | | among dull grey green wild carp; ago *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | | 2 | **keep** | past | | the brightest | | ponds | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bright=Theme in pond=Location | | 3 | **let** | past | | people | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | infinitive | people *not said here* | babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | past | the colours | | | | | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`. **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. 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