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title: Fish can learn simple mazes and remember the way, sometimes using la… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fish can learn simple mazes and remember the way, sometimes using landmarks like stones or plants. Who acts: Fish. 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 the pragmatics of every clause
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# Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?, sentence 8

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Fish can learn simple mazes and remember the way, sometimes using landmarks like stones or plants.

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**Who acts:** Fish · **What happens:** learn, remember, use · **To what, where:** simple mazes, way, landmarks

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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 (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:8
# text = Fish can learn simple mazes and remember the way, sometimes using landmarks like stones or plants.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mazes	maze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
13	landmarks	landmark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | can | Fish | simple mazes |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maze=Topic |
| 2 | **remember** | infinitive | Fish *not said here* | the way |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | Fish *not said here* | landmarks |  |  |  | like stones or plants; sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landmark=Patient |

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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.

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**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:8`.

**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, 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/).

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