Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 10
Koi are colourful carp bred in Japan, and some koi have been reported to live for over a hundred years.
Who acts: Koi · What happens: be, breed, report, live · To what, where: colourful carp, Japan, koi
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 (Koi), 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 | Koi | koi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carp | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carp | cop |
| 3 | colourful | colourful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 carp | amod |
| 4 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carp | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Japan | case |
| 7 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bred | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reported | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reported | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 koi | det |
| 11 | koi | koi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reported | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 reported | aux:pass |
| 14 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carp | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 live | mark |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 reported | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 hundred | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 years | det |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 live | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carp | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Koi | colourful carp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breed | participle | colourful carp not said here | Japan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | report | present · perfect · passive | some koi | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth.lesson:10.
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. 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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