--- title: Fish have pain receptors (nerve ends that sense harm) and react to i… — Animals in the sea and the river · tree and pragmatics description: Fish have pain receptors (nerve ends that sense harm) and react to injury, and many experts think fish can feel pain. Who acts: Fish, nerve ends, many experts. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fish, nerve ends, many experts), 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:12 # text = Fish have pain receptors (nerve ends that sense harm) and react to injury, and many experts think fish can feel pain. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 receptors receptor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 6 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sense sense VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 react react VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 injury injury NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 21 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 24 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Fish | pain receptors | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent receptor=Patient | | 2 | **sense** | present | nerve ends | harm | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus | | 3 | **react** | present | Fish *not said here* | | | | | to injury | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to injury=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | many experts | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | can | fish | pain | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | 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:12`. **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/). - ← previous: [Animals in the sea and the river, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/11/) - next →: [Animals in the sea and the river, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/)