--- title: All goldfish, gold, white, black and spotted, were bred long ago in… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory… · tree and pragmatics description: All goldfish, gold, white, black and spotted, were bred long ago in China from a dull greenish wild carp, and goldfish released into ponds and lakes can turn dull again and grow huge. Who acts: goldfish. 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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 (goldfish), 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:9 # text = All goldfish, gold, white, black and spotted, were bred long ago in China from a dull greenish wild carp, and goldfish released into ponds and lakes can turn dull again and grow huge. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 goldfish goldfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 gold gold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 spotted spot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 ago ago ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 greenish greenish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound 23 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 goldfish goldfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 27 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 34 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 again again ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 38 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **spot** | participle | | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 2 | **breed** | past · passive | | all goldfish | | China | | from a dull greenish wild carp; ago *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **release** | participle | | goldfish *not said here* | | ponds and lakes | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 4 | **turn** | can | goldfish | | | | again | dull *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | infinitive | goldfish *not said here* | | | | | huge *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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