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title: Too much fish food makes the water dirty, and dirty water can kill f… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics
description: Too much fish food makes the water dirty, and dirty water can kill fish. Who acts: much fish food, dirty water. 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 22

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Too much fish food makes the water dirty, and dirty water can kill fish.

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**Who acts:** much fish food, dirty water · **What happens:** make, kill · **To what, where:** water, fish

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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 (much fish food, dirty water), 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:22
# text = Too much fish food makes the water dirty, and dirty water can kill 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): no change
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **make** | present | much fish food | the water |  |  |  | dirty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material water=Product |
| 2 | **kill** | can | dirty water | fish |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:22`.

**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): no change. **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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