--- title: Most scientists now think fish feel pain and stress; they learn to a… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics description: Most scientists now think fish feel pain and stress; they learn to avoid things that hurt them, so many countries have rules about caring for fish kindly. Who acts: Most scientists, fish, things, many countries. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?» of the bi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/15/) [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/) / 15 # Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 15 Most scientists now think fish feel pain and stress; they learn to avoid things that hurt them, so many countries have rules about caring for fish kindly. **Who acts:** Most scientists, fish, things, many countries · **What happens:** think, feel, learn, avoid, hurt, have · **To what, where:** pain, things, Fish, rules · **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 (Most scientists, fish, things, many countries), 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:15 # text = Most scientists now think fish feel pain and stress; they learn to avoid things that hurt them, so many countries have rules about caring for fish kindly. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 now now ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 stress stress NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hurt hurt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 24 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 caring caring NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 30 . . 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 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Most scientists | | | | now | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | present | fish | pain and stress | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | present | Fish | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | Fish *not said here* | things | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Location | | 5 | **hurt** | present | things | Fish | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | | 6 | **have** | present | many countries | rules | | | | about caring; for fish; kindly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | 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:15`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/14/) - next →: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/)