--- title: Goldfish quickly learn that a person near the tank means food is com… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics description: Goldfish quickly learn that a person near the tank means food is coming, and they gather at the front. Who acts: Goldfish, person, food, experiments. 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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 6 Goldfish quickly learn that a person near the tank means food is coming, and they gather at the front. **Who acts:** Goldfish, person, food, experiments · **What happens:** learn, mean, come, gather · **To what, where:** front · **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 (Goldfish, person, food, experiments), 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:6 # text = Goldfish quickly learn that a person near the tank means food is coming, and they gather at the front. # 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 NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 near near ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 gather gather VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **learn** | present | Goldfish | | | | | quickly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | a person near the tank | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** | present · progressive | food | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **gather** | present | experiments *= experiment* | | | the front | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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/). - ← previous: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/5/) - next →: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/)