Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 0

People joke that a goldfish swimming round its bowl sees the same castle every few seconds and thinks «oh, a castle!» each time, because it forgets everything after three seconds.

Who acts: People, goldfish · What happens: joke, swim, see, think, forget · To what, where: bowl, same castle, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?» of the biology 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 (People, goldfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 joke	nsubj
2	joke	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 sees	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 goldfish	det
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sees	nsubj
6	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 goldfish	acl
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 bowl	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bowl	nmod:poss
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swimming	obj
10	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 joke	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 castle	amod
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sees	obj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 seconds	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seconds	amod
16	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sees	obl:unmarked
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thinks	cc
18	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sees	conj
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 castle	punct
20	oh	oh	INTJ	_	23 castle	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 oh	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 castle	det
23	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thinks	ccomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 castle	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 castle	punct
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 joke	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 forgets	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 forgets	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 forgets	nsubj
31	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thinks	advcl
32	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 forgets	obj
33	after	after	ADP	_	35 seconds	case
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 seconds	nummod
35	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 forgets	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 joke	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present	People		time	tree rules
2	swim	gerund	a goldfish not said here	goldfish's bowl		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bowl=Trajectory
3	see	present	a goldfish	the same castle	second	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	present	a goldfish not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	forget	present	goldfish	everything	second	tree rules

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, 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:biology:152-goldfish-memory.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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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.

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