Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 12

Herons stand very still at the edge of garden ponds to catch fish, so pond owners use nets or give the fish places to hide.

Who acts: Herons, pond owners · What happens: stand, catch, use, give, hide · To what, where: edge, fish, nets, fish places

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 (Herons, pond owners), 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	Herons	heron	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stand	nsubj
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 stand	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stand	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ponds	case
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ponds	compound
10	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 edge	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 catch	mark
12	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stand	advcl
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catch	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stand	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 use	advmod
16	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 owners	compound
17	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 use	nsubj
18	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stand	parataxis
19	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 use	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 give	cc
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 use	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 places	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 places	compound
24	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 give	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 hide	mark
26	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 places	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stand	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	present	Herons		the edge of garden ponds	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location
2	catch	to-infinitive	Herons not said here	fish			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	use	present	pond owners	nets			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Patient
4	give	infinitive	pond owners not said here	the fish places			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
5	hide	to-infinitive	pond owners not said here	the fish places not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:12.

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, R7-rel-agree ×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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