Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 13
Goldfish come from a wild carp in China, bred for their colours over about a thousand years.
Who acts: Goldfish, wild carp · What happens: come, breed · To what, where: wild carp
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, wild carp), 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=Plur | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 carp | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 carp | det |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 carp | amod |
| 6 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 come | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 China | case |
| 8 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carp | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bred | punct |
| 10 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 carp | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 colours | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 colours | nmod:poss |
| 13 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bred | obl |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 bred | advmod |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 thousand | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thousand | det |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bred | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Goldfish | a wild carp in China | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from carp=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | breed | past | a wild carp in China not said here | year | for Fish's colours; over property | 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:13.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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.
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