Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 14

Goldfish colour depends partly on light, so a goldfish kept in the dark can turn pale, and wild fish also change colour to match their surroundings.

Who acts: Goldfish colour, goldfish, wild fish · What happens: depend, keep, turn, change, match · To what, where: goldfish, dark, colour, surroundings

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 colour, goldfish, wild fish), 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	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	compound
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depends	nsubj
3	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	partly	partly	ADV	_	3 depends	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depends	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turn	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	16 turn	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 goldfish	det
10	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 goldfish	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 dark	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dark	det
14	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obl
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 turn	aux
16	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 depends	advcl
17	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 turn	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 change	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 change	cc
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fish	amod
21	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 change	nsubj
22	also	also	ADV	_	23 change	advmod
23	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 depends	parataxis
24	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 change	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 match	mark
26	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 change	advcl
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 surroundings	nmod:poss
28	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 match	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 depends	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	depend	present	Goldfish colour			on light; partly property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on light=Theme
2	keep	participle		a goldfish not said here	the dark		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in dark=Location
3	turn	can	a goldfish			pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	change	infinitive	wild fish	colour			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
5	match	to-infinitive	wild fish not said here	change's surroundings			vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surroundings=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:14.

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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