Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 8
Fish can learn simple mazes and remember the way, sometimes using landmarks like stones or plants.
Who acts: Fish · What happens: learn, remember, use · To what, where: simple mazes, way, landmarks
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=Sing | 3 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 learn | aux |
| 3 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mazes | amod |
| 5 | mazes | maze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learn | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 remember | cc |
| 7 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 learn | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remember | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 using | punct |
| 11 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 using | advmod |
| 12 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 remember | advcl |
| 13 | landmarks | landmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 using | obj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 stones | case |
| 15 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 landmarks | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 plants | cc |
| 17 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stones | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | can | Fish | simple mazes | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maze=Topic | ||||
| 2 | remember | infinitive | Fish not said here | the way | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | gerund | Fish not said here | landmarks | like stones or plants; sometimes property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landmark=Patient |
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:8.
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, 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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