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title: Many places no longer give goldfish as fair prizes, because a fish i… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many places no longer give goldfish as fair prizes, because a fish in a small bag is stressed and often dies soon after. Who acts: Many places. 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 and 
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# Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth, sentence 8

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Many places no longer give goldfish as fair prizes, because a fish in a small bag is stressed and often dies soon after.

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**Who acts:** Many places · **What happens:** give, stress, die · **To what, where:** goldfish, fish

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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 (Many places), 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:8
# text = Many places no longer give goldfish as fair prizes, because a fish in a small bag is stressed and often dies soon after.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
6	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	stressed	stress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Many places | goldfish |  |  |  | as fair prizes; long *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme |
| 2 | **stress** | present · passive |  | a fish in a small bag |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **die** | present |  |  |  |  |  | often, soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

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**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:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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