Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 6
Goldfish quickly learn that a person near the tank means food is coming, and they gather at the front.
Who acts: Goldfish, person, food, experiments · What happens: learn, mean, come, gather · To what, where: front · 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 (Goldfish, person, food, experiments), 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 | 3 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 learn | advmod |
| 3 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 means | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 tank | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tank | det |
| 9 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 person | nmod |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 learn | ccomp |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 coming | aux |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 means | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gather | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gather | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gather | nsubj |
| 17 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 learn | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 front | det |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gather | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learn | 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 | present | Goldfish | quickly property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | a person near the tank | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | present · progressive | food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | gather | present | experiments = experiment | the front | vn herd-47.5.2 «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:6.
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.
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