--- title: A goldfish stays at one depth by keeping just the right amount of ga… — Water safety and the ocean · tree and pragmatics description: A goldfish stays at one depth by keeping just the right amount of gas in its swim bladder, and a fish floating on its side may have a sick swim bladder. Who acts: goldfish, fish. 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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 (goldfish, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:16 # text = A goldfish stays at one depth by keeping just the right amount of gas in its swim bladder, and a fish floating on its side may have a sick swim bladder. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 depth depth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 swim swim NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bladder bladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 23 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 swim swim NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 bladder bladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | a goldfish | | | one depth | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at depth=Location | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | a goldfish *not said here* | the right amount of gas | | goldfish's swim bladder | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent amount=Theme in bladder=Location | | 3 | **float** | gerund | a fish *not said here* | | | goldfish's side | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | | 4 | **have** | may | a fish | a sick swim bladder | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient | | 5 | **amount** | | | gas | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:16`. **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: [Water safety and the ocean, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/15/) - next →: [Water safety and the ocean, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/)