The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 3
Even the goldfish's «three-second memory» is a myth; scientists have trained goldfish to remember a sound or a lever for months.
Who acts: second memory, scientists, goldfish · What happens: be, train, remember · To what, where: myth, goldfish, sound
This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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, scientists, 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 9 memory | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goldfish | det |
| 3 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 memory | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 goldfish | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 memory | punct |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 second | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 three | punct |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 memory | amod |
| 9 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 myth | nsubj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 memory | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 myth | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 myth | det |
| 13 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 trained | punct |
| 15 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 trained | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 trained | aux |
| 17 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 myth | parataxis |
| 18 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trained | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 remember | mark |
| 20 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 trained | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sound | det |
| 22 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 remember | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 lever | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lever | det |
| 25 | lever | lever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sound | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 months | case |
| 27 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 remember | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the goldfish's second memory | a myth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | train | present · perfect | scientists | goldfish | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | remember | to-infinitive | goldfish not said here | a sound or a lever | month | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sound=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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:3.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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