Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 1
It is a myth: goldfish can learn tricks and remember them for months.
Who acts: goldfish · What happens: be, learn, remember · To what, where: myth, tricks
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 myth | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 myth | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 myth | det |
| 4 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 learn | punct |
| 6 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 learn | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 learn | aux |
| 8 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 myth | parataxis |
| 9 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 learn | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 remember | cc |
| 11 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 learn | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 remember | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 months | case |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remember | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 myth | 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 | is a | present | goldfish | a myth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | can | goldfish | tricks | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic | ||||
| 3 | remember | infinitive | goldfish not said here | tricks = trick | month | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=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:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth.lesson:1.
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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