Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 16
Scientists have trained goldfish to remember things for weeks and even months; the "three-second memory" is a myth.
Who acts: Scientists, goldfish, second memory · What happens: train, remember, be · To what, where: goldfish, things, myth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world 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 (Scientists, 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trained | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trained | aux |
| 3 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trained | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 remember | mark |
| 6 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 trained | xcomp |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 remember | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 weeks | case |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 remember | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 months | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 months | advmod |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 weeks | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 myth | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 memory | det |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 memory | punct |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 second | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 three | punct |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 memory | amod |
| 19 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 myth | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 memory | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 myth | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 myth | det |
| 23 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trained | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trained | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | present · perfect | Scientists | goldfish | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | remember | to-infinitive | goldfish not said here | things | week | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 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:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:16.
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 ×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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