The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 8

Goldfish can be trained to push levers or come to a sound and remember it for months; the «three-second memory» is a myth.

Who acts: Goldfish, second memory · What happens: train, push, come, remember, be · To what, where: Goldfish, levers, sound, lever, myth

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 (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=Sing	4 trained	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 trained	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 trained	aux:pass
4	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 push	mark
6	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trained	xcomp
7	levers	lever	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 push	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 push	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 sound	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sound	det
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 remember	cc
14	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 push	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 remember	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 months	case
17	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 remember	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 memory	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 memory	det
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 memory	punct
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 second	nummod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 three	punct
23	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 memory	amod
24	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 myth	nsubj
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 memory	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 myth	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 myth	det
28	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trained	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 trained	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	train	can · passive		Goldfish			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	push	to-infinitive	Goldfish not said here	levers			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Theme
3	come	infinitive	Goldfish not said here		a sound		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sound=Initial_Location
4	remember	infinitive	Goldfish not said here	lever		month	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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