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title: Fish take oxygen from water with gills, thin feathery parts full of… — Lungs and breathing · tree and pragmatics
description: Fish take oxygen from water with gills, thin feathery parts full of blood vessels; water goes in through the mouth and out over the gills, and out of water the gills collapse, so the fish cannot get oxygen. Who acts: Fish, water, gills. A sentence of the lesson «Lungs and breathing» of the biology c
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# Lungs and breathing, sentence 18

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Fish take oxygen from water with gills, thin feathery parts full of blood vessels; water goes in through the mouth and out over the gills, and out of water the gills collapse, so the fish cannot get oxygen.

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**Who acts:** Fish, water, gills · **What happens:** take, go in, collapse, not get · **To what, where:** oxygen, water, mouth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lungs and breathing» 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 (Fish, water, gills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:066-lungs-and-breathing.lesson:18
# text = Fish take oxygen from water with gills, thin feathery parts full of blood vessels; water goes in through the mouth and out over the gills, and out of water the gills collapse, so the fish cannot get oxygen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 066-lungs-and-breathing.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	collapse	collapse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
40	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
43	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	.	.	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 | **take** | present | Fish | oxygen |  | water |  | with gills | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme from water=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go in** | present | water |  |  | the mouth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through mouth=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **collapse** | present | the gills |  |  | water |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **get** | can | the fish | oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oxygen=Stimulus |

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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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**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 ×1, 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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