Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 8
Many places no longer give goldfish as fair prizes, because a fish in a small bag is stressed and often dies soon after.
Who acts: Many places · What happens: give, stress, die · To what, where: goldfish, fish
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 (Many places), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 places | amod |
| 2 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 prizes | case |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prizes | amod |
| 9 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stressed | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 stressed | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fish | det |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stressed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bag | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bag | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bag | amod |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fish | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stressed | aux:pass |
| 19 | stressed | stress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 give | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dies | cc |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 dies | advmod |
| 22 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stressed | conj |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 dies | advmod |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 soon | fixed |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Many places | goldfish | as fair prizes; long property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme | |||
| 2 | stress | present · passive | a fish in a small bag | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | die | present | often, soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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