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title: Goldfish must never be let go in the wild, where they can grow huge… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Goldfish must never be let go in the wild, where they can grow huge and harm native fish. Who acts: Goldfish, Fish. 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 claus
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# Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 12

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Goldfish must never be let go in the wild, where they can grow huge and harm native fish.

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**Who acts:** Goldfish, Fish · **What happens:** not let, go, grow, harm · **To what, where:** Goldfish, wild, native fish

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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, Fish), 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:12
# text = Goldfish must never be let go in the wild, where they can grow huge and harm native fish.
# 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	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **let** | must · passive |  | Goldfish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* |  |  | the wild |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wild=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | can | Fish |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **harm** | infinitive | Fish *not said here* | native fish |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fish=Experiencer |

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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:12`.

**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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