--- title: Flushing a goldfish down the toilet is not kind and does not set it… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory… · tree and pragmatics description: Flushing a goldfish down the toilet is not kind and does not set it free; released goldfish can harm wild rivers, and a fish swimming home to the sea through the pipes, like in Finding Nemo, is cartoon fantasy. Who acts: Flushing, released goldfish, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Goldfish and pond --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 15 Flushing a goldfish down the toilet is not kind and does not set it free; released goldfish can harm wild rivers, and a fish swimming home to the sea through the pipes, like in Finding Nemo, is cartoon fantasy. **Who acts:** Flushing, released goldfish, fish · **What happens:** flush, not be, not set, release, harm, swim · **To what, where:** goldfish, wild rivers, pipes, cartoon fantasy 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 (Flushing, released goldfish, fish), 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:15 # text = Flushing a goldfish down the toilet is not kind and does not set it free; released goldfish can harm wild rivers, and a fish swimming home to the sea through the pipes, like in Finding Nemo, is cartoon fantasy. # 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 Flushing flush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 down down ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 21 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 27 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 acl _ _ 28 home home ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Finding find PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 39 Nemo Nemo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 fantasy fantasy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flush** | gerund | | a goldfish | | | | down the toilet | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent goldfish=Source | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Flushing | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **set** | present · do-support | Flushing *not said here* | goldfish | | | | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | | 4 | **release** | participle | | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 5 | **harm** | can | released goldfish | wild rivers | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus river=Experiencer | | 6 | **swim** | gerund | a fish like Finding *not said here* | | | the pipes | | to the sea; home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination | | 7 | **is a** | present | a fish like Finding | cartoon fantasy | | | | | 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:15`. **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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