--- title: At the fair, Aunt Sue hands over a goldfish in a bag: "Don't worry,… — Animals in the sea and the river · tree and pragmatics description: At the fair, Aunt Sue hands over a goldfish in a bag: "Don't worry, love, they've got a three-second memory, so it never gets bored going round and round!" It is a comfy story that makes a tiny bowl feel fine. Who acts: Aunt, they, memory, comfy story. 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It is a comfy story that makes a tiny bowl feel fine. **Who acts:** Aunt, they, memory, comfy story, tiny bowl · **What happens:** hand over, not worry, get, not get, go, be · **To what, where:** goldfish, fair, second memory, comfy story, tiny bowl · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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 (Aunt, they, memory, comfy story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:0 # text = At the fair, Aunt Sue hands over a goldfish in a bag: "Don't worry, love, they've got a three-second memory, so it never gets bored going round and round!" It is a comfy story that makes a tiny bowl feel fine. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fair fair NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 Aunt Aunt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 Sue Sue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 hands hand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 over over ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 worry worry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 vocative _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nummod 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 amod _ _ 29 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 35 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 37 round round ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 round round ADV RB _ 37 conj _ _ 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 42 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 comfy comfy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 47 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 52 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 53 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 xcomp _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hand over** | present | Aunt | a goldfish | | the fair | | in a bag | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **worry** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | love *vocative* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | they | a second memory | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer memory=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present | memory | | | | | bored *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | memory *not said here* | | | | | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | memory | a comfy story | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | present | a comfy story | a tiny bowl | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **feel** | infinitive | a tiny bowl *not said here* | | | | | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:0`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Birds and baby animals, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/16/) - next →: [Animals in the sea and the river, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/)