--- title: Fish need memory just like other animals, to find food, avoid danger… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics description: Fish need memory just like other animals, to find food, avoid danger and know their way around, and a fish that forgot everything every three seconds would not survive in a pond for a week. Who acts: Fish. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:3 # text = Fish need memory just like other animals, to find food, avoid danger and know their way around, and a fish that forgot everything every three seconds would not survive in a pond for a week. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 avoid avoid VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 14 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl:unmarked 19 around around ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 25 obj _ _ 27 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 28 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 survive survive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 . . 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 | **need** | present | Fish | memory | | | | like other animals | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot memory=Theme | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Fish *not said here* | food | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | | 3 | **avoid** | infinitive | Fish *not said here* | danger | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent danger=Location | | 4 | **know around** | infinitive | Fish *not said here* | Fish's way | | | | around *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | | 5 | **forget** | past | a fish | everything | | | second | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **survive** | would | Fish *not said here* | | | a pond | week | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location | 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:3`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/2/) - next →: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/)