Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?, sentence 13

Goldfish can remember things for months: they learn to push levers, come to the sound of feeding and recognise colours, shapes and even music, so the three-second memory is a myth.

Who acts: Goldfish, second memory · What happens: remember, learn, push, come, recognise, be · To what, where: things, levers, sound, colours, myth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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, second memory), 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	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remember	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	aux
3	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remember	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 months	case
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remember	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 learn	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 learn	nsubj
9	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 push	mark
11	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 learn	xcomp
12	levers	lever	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 push	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remember	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 sound	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sound	det
17	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 feeding	case
19	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sound	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 recognise	cc
21	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj
22	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 recognise	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shapes	punct
24	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 colours	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 music	cc
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 music	advmod
27	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 colours	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 myth	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	37 myth	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 memory	det
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 second	nummod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 three	punct
33	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 memory	amod
34	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 myth	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 myth	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 myth	det
37	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	remember	can	Goldfish	things		month	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	learn	present	Goldfish				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	push	to-infinitive	Goldfish not said here	levers			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Theme
4	come	infinitive	Goldfish not said here		the sound of feeding		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sound=Initial_Location
5	recognise	infinitive	Goldfish not said here	colours and shapes and music			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus
6	is a	present	the second memory	a myth			tree rules

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:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:13.

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. 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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