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title: Goldfish kept in small bowls stay stunted (small and badly grown) an… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Goldfish kept in small bowls stay stunted (small and badly grown) and stressed; in a big pond they can grow longer than 30 centimetres. Who acts: Goldfish, water. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Pets and farm animals, sentence 11

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Goldfish kept in small bowls stay stunted (small and badly grown) and stressed; in a big pond they can grow longer than 30 centimetres.

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**Who acts:** Goldfish, water · **What happens:** keep, stay, stunt, grow, stress · **To what, where:** Goldfish, small bowls, big pond

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» 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 (Goldfish, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:11
# text = Goldfish kept in small bowls stay stunted (small and badly grown) and stressed; in a big pond they can grow longer than 30 centimetres.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 007-pets-and-farm-animals.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bowls	bowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	stunted	stunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
11	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
15	stressed	stress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | participle |  | Goldfish *not said here* |  | small bowls |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bowl=Location |
| 2 | **stay** | present | Goldfish |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stunt** | participle | Goldfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | participle | Goldfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stress** | participle | Goldfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **grow** | can | water |  |  | a big pond |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location |

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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:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:11`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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