--- title: Watch the fish in a garden pond in winter: they sink to the bottom a… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch the fish in a garden pond in winter: they sink to the bottom and barely move, because cold water slows their bodies down and the deep water stays a little warmer. Who acts: you, tricks, cold water, deep water. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tricks, cold water, deep 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:4 # text = Watch the fish in a garden pond in winter: they sink to the bottom and barely move, because cold water slows their bodies down and the deep water stays a little warmer. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sink sink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 barely barely ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 down down ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 34 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the fish | | a garden pond | winter | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 2 | **sink** | present | tricks *= trick* | | | | | to the bottom | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **move** | present | tricks *= trick* *not said here* | | | | | barely *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **slow down** | present | cold water | tricks's bodies | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient | | 5 | **stay** | present | the deep water | | | | | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:4`. **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 ×2, 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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