Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 7

Fish can be trained to come to a sound, a colour or a light that comes before food, and some fish farms use a sound to call fish.

Who acts: Fish, light, fish farms · What happens: train, come, use, call · To what, where: Fish, sound, food · 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 (Fish, light, fish farms), 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=Sing	4 trained	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 trained	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 trained	aux:pass
4	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trained	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 sound	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sound	det
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 colour	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 colour	det
12	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sound	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 light	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 light	det
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 colour	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 light	acl:relcl
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 food	case
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 use	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 use	cc
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 farms	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 farms	compound
24	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 use	nsubj
25	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trained	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sound	det
27	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 use	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 call	mark
29	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 use	advcl
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 call	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 trained	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	train	can · passive		Fish			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	come	to-infinitive	Fish not said here			a sound and a colour or a light	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sound=Initial_Location
3	come	present	a light			food	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before food=Location
4	use	present	some fish farms	a sound			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
5	call	to-infinitive	some fish farms not said here		fish		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient

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:7.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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