--- title: Fish should get only as much food as they eat in a couple of minutes… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics description: Fish should get only as much food as they eat in a couple of minutes, because leftovers rot and poison the water. Who acts: Fish, leftovers. A sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/) / 16 # Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 16 Fish should get only as much food as they eat in a couple of minutes, because leftovers rot and poison the water. **Who acts:** Fish, leftovers · **What happens:** get, eat, rot, poison · **To what, where:** much food, couple, water This is a sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday 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, leftovers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.lesson:16 # text = Fish should get only as much food as they eat in a couple of minutes, because leftovers rot and poison the water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.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 1 Fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 leftovers leftover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 rot rot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 poison poison VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | should | Fish | much food | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | | 2 | **eat** | present | Fish | | | a couple of minutes | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rot** | present | leftovers | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **poison** | present | leftovers *not said here* | the water | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | 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:everyday:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/15/) - next →: [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/)