--- title: A small round bowl is too small for a goldfish: goldfish can live ov… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory… · tree and pragmatics description: A small round bowl is too small for a goldfish: goldfish can live over twenty years and grow as long as a pencil or more, and they make lots of waste. Who acts: small round bowl, goldfish, levers. 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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 (small round bowl, goldfish, levers), 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:7 # text = A small round bowl is too small for a goldfish: goldfish can live over twenty years and grow as long as a pencil or more, and they make lots of waste. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 goldfish goldfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 as as ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 31 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is** | present | a small round bowl | | | | | for a goldfish; small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | can | goldfish | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | infinitive | goldfish *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | levers *= lever* | lots of waste | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product | 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:7`. **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): 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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