--- title: People joke that a goldfish forgets everything after three seconds,… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory… · tree and pragmatics description: People joke that a goldfish forgets everything after three seconds, so swimming round a bowl is always a new adventure. Who acts: People, goldfish, swimming. A sentence of the lesson «Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth/0/) [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/) / [Goldfish and pond fish: the three-seco…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth/) / 0 # Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 0 People joke that a goldfish forgets everything after three seconds, so swimming round a bowl is always a new adventure. **Who acts:** People, goldfish, swimming · **What happens:** joke, forget, swim, be · **To what, where:** everything, bowl, new adventure · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth» 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 (People, goldfish, swimming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth.lesson:0 # text = People joke that a goldfish forgets everything after three seconds, so swimming round a bowl is always a new adventure. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 joke joke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 forgets forget VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 6 obj _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 13 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ _ 14 round round ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 22 . . 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 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | People | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **forget** | present | a goldfish | everything | | | second | | tree rules | | 3 | **swim** | gerund | | | | a bowl | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round bowl=Trajectory | | 4 | **is a** | present | swimming | a new adventure | | | | always *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:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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