--- title: They come from a dull greenish carp, can live for over twenty years… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory… · tree and pragmatics description: They come from a dull greenish carp, can live for over twenty years and grow as long as a pencil or longer if they have the space. Who acts: tricks. 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 dependency tree --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 3 They come from a dull greenish carp, can live for over twenty years and grow as long as a pencil or longer if they have the space. **Who acts:** tricks · **What happens:** come, live, grow, have · **To what, where:** dull greenish carp, space 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 (tricks), 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:3 # text = They come from a dull greenish carp, can live for over twenty years and grow as long as a pencil or longer if they have the space. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 greenish greenish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 over over ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advcl 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **come** | present | tricks *= trick* | | | a dull greenish carp | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from carp=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **live** | can | tricks *= trick* *not said here* | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | tricks *= trick* *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | tricks *= trick* | the space | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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:3`. **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, 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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