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title: In a good pond goldfish can grow to over 20 to 30 centimetres and li… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a good pond goldfish can grow to over 20 to 30 centimetres and live 10 to 20 years or more. Who acts: goldfish. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 11

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In a good pond goldfish can grow to over 20 to 30 centimetres and live 10 to 20 years or more.

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**Who acts:** goldfish · **What happens:** grow, live · **To what, where:** good pond

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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), 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:11
# text = In a good pond goldfish can grow to over 20 to 30 centimetres and live 10 to 20 years or more.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | can | goldfish |  |  | a good pond |  | to 20 centimetres | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location |
| 2 | **live** | infinitive | goldfish *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:11`.

**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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