Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 4
Watch the fish in a garden pond in winter: they sink to the bottom and barely move, because cold water slows their bodies down and the deep water stays a little warmer.
Who acts: you, tricks, cold water, deep water · What happens: watch, sink, move, slow down, stay · To what, where: fish, garden pond, bodies
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 (you, tricks, cold water, deep water), 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pond | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pond | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pond | compound |
| 7 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 winter | case |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 sink | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sink | nsubj |
| 12 | sink | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bottom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bottom | det |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sink | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 move | cc |
| 17 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 18 move | advmod |
| 18 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sink | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slows | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 slows | mark |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 water | amod |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slows | nsubj |
| 23 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 move | advcl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 slows | obj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 slows | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stays | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 29 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 water | amod |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stays | nsubj |
| 31 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 slows | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 little | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 warmer | obl |
| 34 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 stays | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | the fish | a garden pond | winter | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||
| 2 | sink | present | tricks = trick | to the bottom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | move | present | tricks = trick not said here | barely property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | slow down | present | cold water | tricks's bodies | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 5 | stay | present | the deep water | warm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:4.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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