--- title: People joke that a goldfish swimming round its bowl sees the same ca… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics description: People joke that a goldfish swimming round its bowl sees the same castle every few seconds and thinks «oh, a castle!» each time, because it forgets everything after three seconds. Who acts: People, goldfish. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, goldfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:152-goldfish-memory.lesson:0 # text = People joke that a goldfish swimming round its bowl sees the same castle every few seconds and thinks «oh, a castle!» each time, because it forgets everything after three seconds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 152-goldfish-memory.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 joke joke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 round round ADP IN _ 9 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 15 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 oh oh INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 26 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 forgets forget VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 32 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 31 obj _ _ 33 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | People | | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **swim** | gerund | a goldfish *not said here* | goldfish's bowl | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bowl=Trajectory | | 3 | **see** | present | a goldfish | the same castle | | | second | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | a goldfish *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **forget** | present | goldfish | everything | | | second | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:152-goldfish-memory.lesson:0`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Myth check: do ostriches bury their he…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/16/) - next →: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/)