Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 5
In one experiment goldfish learned to push a lever for food and remembered the time of day when it worked.
Who acts: goldfish · What happens: learn, push, remember, work · To what, where: one experiment, lever
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 experiment | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 experiment | nummod |
| 3 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learned | obl |
| 4 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learned | nsubj |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 push | mark |
| 7 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 learned | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lever | det |
| 9 | lever | lever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 push | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 food | case |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lever | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 remembered | cc |
| 13 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 learned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remembered | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 worked | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 worked | nsubj |
| 20 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 day | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | 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 | learn | past | goldfish | one experiment | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | push | to-infinitive | goldfish not said here | a lever | for food | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Theme | |||
| 3 | remember | past | goldfish not said here | time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | work | past | goldfish | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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