Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 6

The three-second memory is a myth: goldfish have been trained to push levers, swim through small mazes and come to a sound at feeding time, and they remember for months.

Who acts: second memory, goldfish, levers · What happens: be, train, push, swim, come, remember · To what, where: myth, goldfish, levers, small mazes, sound

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 (second memory, goldfish, levers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 memory	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 second	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 three	punct
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 memory	amod
5	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 myth	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 myth	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 myth	det
8	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 trained	punct
10	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 trained	nsubj:pass
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trained	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 trained	aux:pass
13	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 myth	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 push	mark
15	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 trained	xcomp
16	levers	lever	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 push	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swim	punct
18	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 push	conj
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 mazes	case
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mazes	amod
21	mazes	maze	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 swim	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 swim	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 sound	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sound	det
26	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 time	case
28	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 time	compound
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 remember	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 remember	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 remember	nsubj
33	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trained	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 months	case
35	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 remember	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 myth	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	the second memory	a myth			tree rules
2	train	present · perfect · passive		goldfish			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	push	to-infinitive	goldfish not said here	levers			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Theme
4	swim	infinitive	goldfish not said here		small mazes		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through maze=Trajectory
5	come	infinitive	goldfish not said here		a sound	time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sound=Initial_Location
6	remember	present	levers = lever			month	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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:6.

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. 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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