--- title: A fish takes in water through its mouth and pushes it out over its g… — Fish, frogs and reptiles · tree and pragmatics description: A fish takes in water through its mouth and pushes it out over its gills, where the blood picks up the oxygen dissolved in the water. Who acts: fish, blood. A sentence of the lesson «Fish, frogs and reptiles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/74-fish-frogs-reptiles/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Fish, frogs and reptiles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/74-fish-frogs-reptiles/) / 0 # Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 0 A fish takes in water through its mouth and pushes it out over its gills, where the blood picks up the oxygen dissolved in the water. **Who acts:** fish, blood · **What happens:** take, push out, pick up, dissolve · **To what, where:** water, fish, gills, oxygen This is a sentence of the lesson «Fish, frogs and reptiles» of the world 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 (fish, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:074-fish-frogs-reptiles.lesson:0 # text = A fish takes in water through its mouth and pushes it out over its gills, where the blood picks up the oxygen dissolved in the water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 074-fish-frogs-reptiles.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl:relcl 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 dissolved dissolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | a fish | | | water | | through fish's mouth | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | | 2 | **push out** | present | a fish *not said here* | fish | | fish's gills | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme over gill=Trajectory | | 3 | **pick up** | present | the blood | the oxygen | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Topic | | 4 | **dissolve** | participle | | the oxygen *not said here* | | the water | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:world:074-fish-frogs-reptiles.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): 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: [Birds: feathers, nests and flight, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/19/) - next →: [Fish, frogs and reptiles, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/74-fish-frogs-reptiles/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/74-fish-frogs-reptiles/)