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title: A fish floating at the top or gasping may be ill or in dirty water s… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics
description: A fish floating at the top or gasping may be ill or in dirty water short of oxygen. Who acts: fish. 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 18

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A fish floating at the top or gasping may be ill or in dirty water short of oxygen.

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**Who acts:** fish · **What happens:** float, gasp, be · **To what, where:** top

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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 (fish), 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:18
# text = A fish floating at the top or gasping may be ill or in dirty water short of oxygen.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gasping	gasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl
16	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund | a fish *not said here* |  |  | the top |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Trajectory |
| 2 | **gasp** | gerund | a fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | may | a fish |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |

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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:18`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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