Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 11

In winter pond fish slow down and rest near the bottom, because the deepest water of a pond stays slightly warmer and does not freeze solid.

Who acts: winter pond fish, deepest water · What happens: slow down, rest, stay, not freeze · To what, where: bottom

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 (winter pond fish, deepest water), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 fish	case
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	compound
3	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	compound
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slow	nsubj
5	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 slow	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rest	cc
8	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	conj
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 bottom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottom	det
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rest	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stays	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 stays	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
15	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stays	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 pond	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pond	det
19	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 water	nmod
20	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rest	advcl
21	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	22 warmer	advmod
22	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 stays	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 freeze	cc
24	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 freeze	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 freeze	advmod
26	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 warmer	conj
27	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 freeze	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	slow down	present	winter pond fish		down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	rest	present	winter pond fish not said here	the bottom		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bottom=Location
3	stay	present	the deepest water of a pond		warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not freeze	present · do-support	the deepest water of a pond not said here		solid property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth.lesson:11.

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): R7-rel-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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