--- title: Watch a pet goldfish when you walk up to the tank: it swims to the f… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch a pet goldfish when you walk up to the tank: it swims to the front, because it has learned that you mean dinner. Who acts: you, 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 t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/2/) [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/) / 2 # Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 2 Watch a pet goldfish when you walk up to the tank: it swims to the front, because it has learned that you mean dinner. **Who acts:** you, goldfish · **What happens:** watch, walk up, swim, learn, mean · **To what, where:** pet goldfish, tank, front, dinner · **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 (you, 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:2 # text = Watch a pet goldfish when you walk up to the tank: it swims to the front, because it has learned that you mean dinner. # 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 ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 26 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a pet goldfish | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme | | 2 | **walk up** | present | you | | | the tank | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tank=Destination | | 3 | **swim** | present | goldfish | | | the front | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to front=Destination | | 4 | **learn** | present · perfect | goldfish | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | you | dinner | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic | 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:2`. **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 ×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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/1/) - next →: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/)