Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 0
People joke that a goldfish forgets everything after three seconds, so swimming round a bowl is always a new adventure.
Who acts: People, goldfish, swimming · What happens: joke, forget, swim, be · To what, where: everything, bowl, new adventure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth» 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 (People, goldfish, swimming), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 joke | nsubj |
| 2 | joke | joke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 forgets | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 goldfish | det |
| 5 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgets | nsubj |
| 6 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 joke | ccomp |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 forgets | obj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 seconds | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 seconds | nummod |
| 10 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 forgets | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 adventure | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 adventure | advmod |
| 13 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 adventure | csubj |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 bowl | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bowl | det |
| 16 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swimming | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 adventure | cop |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 adventure | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 adventure | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 adventure | amod |
| 21 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgets | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 joke | 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 | joke speech: other | present | People | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | forget | present | a goldfish | everything | second | tree rules | |||
| 3 | swim | gerund | a bowl | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round bowl=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | swimming | a new adventure | always property | tree rules |
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:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-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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