Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 12
Goldfish must never be let go in the wild, where they can grow huge and harm native fish.
Who acts: Goldfish, Fish · What happens: not let, go, grow, harm · To what, where: Goldfish, wild, native fish
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, Fish), 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 | Goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | aux:pass |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wild | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wild | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grow | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 grow | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grow | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 grow | aux |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | parataxis |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grow | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 harm | cc |
| 17 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 grow | conj |
| 18 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 harm | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | must · passive | Goldfish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Goldfish not said here | the wild | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wild=Location | ||||
| 3 | grow | can | Fish | huge property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | harm | infinitive | Fish not said here | native fish | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fish=Experiencer |
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:12.
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): no change. 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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