--- title: Looking after goldfish well means a big tank or pond, clean water fu… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking after goldfish well means a big tank or pond, clean water full of oxygen, and never letting them go into rivers or down the toilet. Who acts: Looking, tank. 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 --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 5 Looking after goldfish well means a big tank or pond, clean water full of oxygen, and never letting them go into rivers or down the toilet. **Who acts:** Looking, tank · **What happens:** look, mean, not let, go · **To what, where:** big tank, tank, rivers · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Looking, tank), 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:5 # text = Looking after goldfish well means a big tank or pond, clean water full of oxygen, and never letting them go into rivers or down the toilet. # 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 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 2 after after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 14 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 down down ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | | | | | after goldfish | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **mean** | present | Looking | a big tank or pond and clean water | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tank=Topic | | 3 | **not** **let** | gerund | Looking *not said here* | tank | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | tank *not said here* | | | rivers or the toilet | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into river=Initial\_Location | 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:5`. **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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