Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 16

Some chasing among goldfish is play or feeding, but too much is bullying; fish recognise each other and keep a pecking order, a ladder of who is boss over whom.

Who acts: chasing, much, fish, ladder · What happens: be, bully, recognise, keep · To what, where: play, each, pecking order, ladder

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 (chasing, much, fish, ladder), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 chasing	det
2	chasing	chasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	nsubj
3	among	among	ADP	_	4 goldfish	case
4	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chasing	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 play	cop
6	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 feeding	cc
8	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bullying	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 bullying	cc
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bullying	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bullying	aux
14	bullying	bully	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 play	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 recognise	punct
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 recognise	nsubj
17	recognise	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 play	parataxis
18	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	17 recognise	obj
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 each	fixed
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 keep	cc
21	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 recognise	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 order	det
23	pecking	pecking	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 order	compound
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keep	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ladder	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ladder	det
27	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 order	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 boss	case
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 boss	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 boss	cop
31	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ladder	acl:relcl
32	over	over	ADP	_	33 whom	case
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 boss	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 play	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	is a	present	some chasing among goldfish	play or feeding			tree rules
2	bully	present · progressive	much				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
3	recognise	present	fish	each			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
4	keep	present	fish not said here	a pecking order			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
5	is	present	a ladder		a ladder	of boss	tree rules

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:16.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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