Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 2

Watch a pet goldfish when you walk up to the tank: it swims to the front, because it has learned that you mean dinner.

Who acts: you, goldfish · What happens: watch, walk up, swim, learn, mean · To what, where: pet goldfish, tank, front, dinner · 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 (you, goldfish), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 goldfish	det
3	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goldfish	compound
4	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 walk	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 walk	nsubj
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 walk	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 tank	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tank	det
11	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 swims	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 swims	nsubj
14	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 front	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 front	det
17	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swims	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 learned	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 learned	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 learned	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 learned	aux
22	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 swims	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 mean	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 mean	nsubj
25	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 learned	ccomp
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mean	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	a pet goldfish		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme
2	walk up	present	you		the tank	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tank=Destination
3	swim	present	goldfish		the front	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to front=Destination
4	learn	present · perfect	goldfish			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	mean	present	you	dinner		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic

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:2.

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 ×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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