Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 13
A goldfish gulping at the surface is usually short of oxygen; a partial water change and a filter help.
Who acts: goldfish, partial water change · What happens: gulp, be, help · To what, where: surface
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, partial water change), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 goldfish | det |
| 2 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 short | nsubj |
| 3 | gulping | gulp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 goldfish | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 surface | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 surface | det |
| 6 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gulping | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 short | cop |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 short | advmod |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 oxygen | case |
| 11 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 short | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 change | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 change | det |
| 14 | partial | partial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 change | amod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 change | compound |
| 16 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 help | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 change | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 filter | det |
| 19 | filter | filter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 change | conj |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 short | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 short | 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 | gulp | gerund | a goldfish not said here | the surface | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a goldfish | of oxygen; short, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | present | a partial water change and a filter | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:13.
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.
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