Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 3

They come from a dull greenish carp, can live for over twenty years and grow as long as a pencil or longer if they have the space.

Who acts: tricks · What happens: come, live, grow, have · To what, where: dull greenish carp, space

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 (tricks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 carp	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 carp	det
5	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carp	amod
6	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carp	amod
7	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 live	aux
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 come	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
12	over	over	ADV	_	13 twenty	advmod
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grow	cc
16	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 grow	advmod
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 pencil	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pencil	det
21	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 long	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 longer	cc
23	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 pencil	conj
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 grow	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 space	det
28	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	tricks = trick		a dull greenish carp			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from carp=Initial_Location
2	live	can	tricks = trick not said here			year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	present	tricks = trick not said here				long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have a condition, not said to happen	present	tricks = trick	the space				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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:3.

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, 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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