Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 14
Goldfish have four kinds of colour cells in their eyes, while we have three, and they can see some ultraviolet light.
Who acts: Goldfish, we, kinds · What happens: have, see · To what, where: four kinds, eyes, three, ultraviolet light
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, we, kinds), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kinds | nummod |
| 4 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cells | case |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cells | compound |
| 7 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kinds | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | advcl |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 light | det |
| 22 | ultraviolet | ultraviolet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 light | amod |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | 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 | have | present | Goldfish | four kinds of colour cells | cells's eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | we | three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | can | kinds = kind | some ultraviolet light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
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:14.
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, 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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