Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 1

It is a myth: experiments show goldfish remember things for weeks and even months, and they learn quickly when there is food to be had.

Who acts: goldfish, experiments, food · What happens: be, show, remember, learn, have · To what, where: myth, things · 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 (goldfish, experiments, food), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 myth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct
6	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 show	nsubj
7	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	parataxis
8	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remember	nsubj
9	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 show	ccomp
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remember	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 weeks	case
12	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remember	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 months	cc
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 months	advmod
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 weeks	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 learn	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 learn	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 learn	nsubj
19	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 show	conj
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	19 learn	advmod
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 is	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 is	expl
23	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 learn	advcl
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 is	nsubj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 had	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	aux:pass
27	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 food	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 myth	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	goldfish	a myth				tree rules
2	show	present	experiments					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remember	present	goldfish	things		week		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	learn	present	experiments = experiment				quickly property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be	present	food		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	to-infinitive · passive	food not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»

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:1.

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. 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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