--- title: In winter pond fish slow down and rest near the bottom, because the… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory… · tree and pragmatics description: In winter pond fish slow down and rest near the bottom, because the deepest water of a pond stays slightly warmer and does not freeze solid. Who acts: winter pond fish, deepest water. A sentence of the lesson «Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth» of the biology course of Mova's prim --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 11 In winter pond fish slow down and rest near the bottom, because the deepest water of a pond stays slightly warmer and does not freeze solid. **Who acts:** winter pond fish, deepest water · **What happens:** slow down, rest, stay, not freeze · **To what, where:** bottom 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 (winter pond fish, deepest water), 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:11 # text = In winter pond fish slow down and rest near the bottom, because the deepest water of a pond stays slightly warmer and does not freeze solid. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 slow slow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 down down ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 rest rest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 21 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 freeze freeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 27 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **slow down** | present | winter pond fish | | | | | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **rest** | present | winter pond fish *not said here* | | | the bottom | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bottom=Location | | 3 | **stay** | present | the deepest water of a pond | | | | | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **freeze** | present · do-support | the deepest water of a pond *not said here* | | | | | solid *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:11`. **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 ×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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