--- title: Goldfish have four kinds of colour cells in their eyes, while we hav… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics description: Goldfish have four kinds of colour cells in their eyes, while we have three, and they can see some ultraviolet light. Who acts: Goldfish, we, kinds. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/14/) [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/) / 14 # Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 14 Goldfish have four kinds of colour cells in their eyes, while we have three, and they can see some ultraviolet light. **Who acts:** Goldfish, we, kinds · **What happens:** have, see · **To what, where:** four kinds, eyes, three, ultraviolet light 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, we, kinds), 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:14 # text = Goldfish have four kinds of colour cells in their eyes, while we have three, and they can see some ultraviolet light. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Goldfish goldfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 22 ultraviolet ultraviolet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 . . 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 | **have** | present | Goldfish | four kinds of colour cells | | cells's eyes | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | we | three | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient | | 3 | **see** | can | kinds *= kind* | some ultraviolet light | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | 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:14`. **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, 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 goldfish have a three-s…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/13/) - next →: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/)