Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 20
Goldfish can remember things for months and learn feeding times; the three-second memory is a myth.
Who acts: Goldfish, second memory · What happens: remember, learn, be · To what, where: things, myth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday 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 | 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 learn | cc |
| 8 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remember | conj |
| 9 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 times | compound |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 learn | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 myth | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 memory | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 second | nummod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 three | punct |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 memory | amod |
| 16 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 myth | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 myth | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 myth | det |
| 19 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 | infinitive | Goldfish not said here | time | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | 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:everyday:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.lesson:20.
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 ×2, 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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