--- title: Herons stand very still at the edge of garden ponds to catch fish, s… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory… · tree and pragmatics description: Herons stand very still at the edge of garden ponds to catch fish, so pond owners use nets or give the fish places to hide. Who acts: Herons, pond owners. 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 dependenc --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 12 Herons stand very still at the edge of garden ponds to catch fish, so pond owners use nets or give the fish places to hide. **Who acts:** Herons, pond owners · **What happens:** stand, catch, use, give, hide · **To what, where:** edge, fish, nets, fish places 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 (Herons, pond owners), 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:12 # text = Herons stand very still at the edge of garden ponds to catch fish, so pond owners use nets or give the fish places to hide. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Herons heron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 13 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 19 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ _ 27 . . 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 | **stand** | present | Herons | | | the edge of garden ponds | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location | | 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Herons *not said here* | fish | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present | pond owners | nets | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Patient | | 4 | **give** | infinitive | pond owners *not said here* | the fish places | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 5 | **hide** | to-infinitive | pond owners *not said here* | the fish places *not said here* | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:12`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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