Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 5

Looking after goldfish well means a big tank or pond, clean water full of oxygen, and never letting them go into rivers or down the toilet.

Who acts: Looking, tank · What happens: look, mean, not let, go · To what, where: big tank, tank, rivers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Looking, tank), 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 means	csubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 goldfish	case
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Looking	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tank	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tank	amod
8	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 pond	cc
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tank	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 water	punct
12	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tank	conj
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 oxygen	case
16	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 letting	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 letting	cc
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 letting	advmod
20	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 means	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 letting	obj
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 letting	xcomp
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 rivers	case
24	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 go	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 toilet	cc
26	down	down	ADP	_	28 toilet	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 toilet	det
28	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rivers	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund				after goldfish	well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean	present	Looking	a big tank or pond and clean water				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tank=Topic
3	not let	gerund	Looking not said here	tank				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	tank not said here		rivers or the toilet			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into river=Initial_Location

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:5.

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, R7-rel-agree ×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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