Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 7
A small round bowl is too small for a goldfish: goldfish can live over twenty years and grow as long as a pencil or more, and they make lots of waste.
Who acts: small round bowl, goldfish, levers · What happens: be, live, grow, make · To what, where: lots
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 (small round bowl, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bowl | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bowl | amod |
| 3 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bowl | amod |
| 4 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 small | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 small | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 goldfish | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 goldfish | det |
| 10 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 small | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 12 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 live | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | aux |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 small | parataxis |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 live | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grow | cc |
| 19 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 live | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 grow | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 pencil | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pencil | det |
| 24 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 long | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 more | cc |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 pencil | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 make | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 make | nsubj |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | conj |
| 31 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 make | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 waste | case |
| 33 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lots | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 small | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a small round bowl | for a goldfish; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | can | goldfish | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | goldfish not said here | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | present | levers = lever | lots of waste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product |
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:7.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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