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title: Tapping on aquarium glass makes a loud, frightening noise for fish. — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics
description: Tapping on aquarium glass makes a loud, frightening noise for fish. Who acts: Tapping. 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 clause.
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# Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 17

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Tapping on aquarium glass makes a loud, frightening noise for fish.

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**Who acts:** Tapping · **What happens:** tap, make · **To what, where:** loud frightening noise

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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 (Tapping), 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:17
# text = Tapping on aquarium glass makes a loud, frightening noise for fish.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Tapping	tap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:nmod
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
10	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **tap** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on aquarium glass | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on glass=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Tapping | a loud frightening noise |  |  |  | for fish | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent noise=Product for fish=Beneficiary |

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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:everyday:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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