--- title: Fish can be trained to come to a sound, a colour or a light that com… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics description: Fish can be trained to come to a sound, a colour or a light that comes before food, and some fish farms use a sound to call fish. Who acts: Fish, light, fish farms. 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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, light, fish farms), 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:7 # text = Fish can be trained to come to a sound, a colour or a light that comes before food, and some fish farms use a sound to call fish. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 23 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 30 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 31 . . 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 | **train** | can · passive | | Fish | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Fish *not said here* | | | a sound and a colour or a light | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sound=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **come** | present | a light | | | food | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before food=Location | | 4 | **use** | present | some fish farms | a sound | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | | 5 | **call** | to-infinitive | some fish farms *not said here* | | fish | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient | 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:7`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/6/) - next →: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/)