Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 3

Fish need memory just like other animals, to find food, avoid danger and know their way around, and a fish that forgot everything every three seconds would not survive in a pond for a week.

Who acts: Fish · What happens: need, find, avoid, know around, forget, not survive · To what, where: memory, food, danger, way, everything, pond

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), 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	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 animals	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 animals	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 find	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	advcl
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 avoid	punct
13	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 find	conj
14	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 avoid	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	obj
19	around	around	ADV	_	16 know	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fish	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fish	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fish	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	conj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 forgot	nsubj
25	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fish	acl:relcl
26	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 forgot	obj
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 seconds	det
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 seconds	nummod
29	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 forgot	obl:unmarked
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 survive	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 survive	advmod
32	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 pond	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pond	det
35	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 survive	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 week	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 week	det
38	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 survive	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Fish	memory			like other animals	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot memory=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	Fish not said here	food				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
3	avoid	infinitive	Fish not said here	danger				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent danger=Location
4	know around	infinitive	Fish not said here	Fish's way			around property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
5	forget	past	a fish	everything		second		tree rules
6	not survive	would	Fish not said here		a pond	week		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location

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:3.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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