Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 17
Fish rest and sleep, but most have no eyelids, so their eyes stay open.
Who acts: Fish, most, eyes · What happens: rest, sleep, have, stay · To what, where: eyelids
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 (Fish, most, eyes), 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 | Fish | Fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sleep | cc |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rest | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 7 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleep | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 eyelids | det |
| 10 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 stay | advmod |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stay | nsubj |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleep | conj |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stay | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | sleep | present | Fish | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | most | no eyelids | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stay | present | Fish's eyes | open property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:17.
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, R7-rel-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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