Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 9

All goldfish, gold, white, black and spotted, were bred long ago in China from a dull greenish wild carp, and goldfish released into ponds and lakes can turn dull again and grow huge.

Who acts: goldfish · What happens: spot, breed, release, turn, grow · To what, where: goldfish, China, ponds

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 (goldfish), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 goldfish	det
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bred	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gold	punct
4	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goldfish	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 white	punct
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gold	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 black	punct
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 white	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spotted	cc
10	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 white	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 goldfish	punct
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bred	aux:pass
13	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ago	advmod
15	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 bred	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 China	case
17	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bred	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	23 carp	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 carp	det
20	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 carp	amod
21	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 carp	amod
22	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 carp	amod
23	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bred	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 turn	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 turn	cc
26	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 turn	nsubj
27	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 goldfish	acl
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 ponds	case
29	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 released	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lakes	cc
31	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ponds	conj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 turn	aux
33	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bred	conj
34	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 turn	xcomp
35	again	again	ADV	_	33 turn	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grow	cc
37	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 turn	conj
38	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grow	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 bred	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	participle						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	breed	past · passive		all goldfish	China		from a dull greenish wild carp; ago property	tree rules
3	release	participle		goldfish not said here	ponds and lakes			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	turn	can	goldfish			again	dull property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	infinitive	goldfish not said here				huge property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:9.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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