Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 1

But goldfish remember things for months; they can learn to come to a tap on the glass at feeding time and even push a lever for food.

Who acts: goldfish, things · What happens: remember, learn, come, push · To what, where: things, glass, lever

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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, things), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 remember	cc
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remember	nsubj
3	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	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	_	10 learn	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learn	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 learn	aux
10	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remember	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 come	mark
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 learn	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 tap	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tap	det
15	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 glass	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 glass	det
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 time	compound
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 push	cc
23	even	even	ADV	_	24 push	advmod
24	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 learn	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lever	det
26	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 push	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 food	case
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 push	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	goldfish	things		month		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	learn	can	things = thing					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here		the glass	time	to a tap	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tap=Initial_Location
4	push	infinitive	things = thing not said here	a lever			for food	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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