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title: Pet fish must never be released into ponds or rivers, because they c… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics
description: Pet fish must never be released into ponds or rivers, because they can spread disease and harm native wildlife (the wild animals that belong there). Who acts: Fish, wild animals. A sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 19

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Pet fish must never be released into ponds or rivers, because they can spread disease and harm native wildlife (the wild animals that belong there).

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**Who acts:** Fish, wild animals · **What happens:** not release, spread, harm, belong · **To what, where:** Pet fish, ponds, disease, native wildlife

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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, wild animals), 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:19
# text = Pet fish must never be released into ponds or rivers, because they can spread disease and harm native wildlife (the wild animals that belong there).
# 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 ×1
1	Pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **release** | must · passive |  | Pet fish |  | ponds or rivers |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **spread** | can | Fish | disease |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme |
| 3 | **harm** | infinitive | Fish *not said here* | native wildlife |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wildlife=Experiencer |
| 4 | **belong** | present | the wild animals |  |  | there |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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:19`.

**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.

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

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