--- title: Small round bowls are bad for goldfish: their waste quickly makes th… — Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memo… · tree and pragmatics description: Small round bowls are bad for goldfish: their waste quickly makes the water dirty and short of oxygen, so they need a big tank with a filter; a fish that keeps gulping at the surface may be short of oxygen. Who acts: Small round bowls, waste, 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 (Small round bowls, waste, 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:9 # text = Small round bowls are bad for goldfish: their waste quickly makes the water dirty and short of oxygen, so they need a big tank with a filter; a fish that keeps gulping at the surface may be short of oxygen. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bowls bowl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 goldfish goldfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 filter filter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 gulping gulp VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 xcomp _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Small round bowls | | | | | for goldfish; bad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | Fish's waste | the water | | | | dirty, quickly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product | | 3 | **need** | present | Fish | a big tank | | | | with a filter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tank=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | a fish | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **gulp** | gerund | a fish *not said here* | | | the surface | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | may | a fish | | | | | of oxygen; short *property* | tree rules | 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:9`. **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): R7-rel-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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/8/) - next →: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/)