Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 9
Goldfish can remember things for months; they can be trained to come for food at a signal.
Who acts: Goldfish, things · What happens: remember, train, come · To what, where: things, signal
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» 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 | 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 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 trained | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 trained | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trained | aux:pass |
| 11 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remember | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trained | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 signal | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 signal | det |
| 18 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | train | can · passive | things = thing | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | things = thing not said here | a signal | for food | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at signal=Location |
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:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:9.
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): 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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