--- title: It is a myth: experiments show goldfish remember things for weeks an… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics description: It is a myth: experiments show goldfish remember things for weeks and even months, and they learn quickly when there is food to be had. Who acts: goldfish, experiments, food. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/) / 1 # Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 1 It is a myth: experiments show goldfish remember things for weeks and even months, and they learn quickly when there is food to be had. **Who acts:** goldfish, experiments, food · **What happens:** be, show, remember, learn, have · **To what, where:** myth, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?» 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, experiments, food), 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:1 # text = It is a myth: experiments show goldfish remember things for weeks and even months, and they learn quickly when there is food to be had. # 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 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 goldfish goldfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | goldfish | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **show** | present | experiments | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **remember** | present | goldfish | things | | | week | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 4 | **learn** | present | experiments *= experiment* | | | | | quickly *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **be** | present | food | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have** | to-infinitive · passive | food *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP» | 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: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): R5-strong ×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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/0/) - next →: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/)