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title: The idea that goldfish remember things for only 3 seconds is a myth:… — What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitti… · tree and pragmatics
description: The idea that goldfish remember things for only 3 seconds is a myth: experiments show they remember feeding times and tricks for months. Who acts: goldfish, idea, experiments. A sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch
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# What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 9

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The idea that goldfish remember things for only 3 seconds is a myth: experiments show they remember feeding times and tricks for months.

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**Who acts:** goldfish, idea, experiments · **What happens:** remember, be, show, feed · **To what, where:** things, myth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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, idea, experiments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:9
# text = The idea that goldfish remember things for only 3 seconds is a myth: experiments show they remember feeding times and tricks for months.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	experiments	experiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | goldfish | things |  |  | second |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the idea | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | present | experiments |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **remember** | present | experiments *= experiment* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **feed** | gerund | experiments *= experiment* *not said here* |  |  |  | month; time |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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