--- title: Goldfish can remember things for months: they learn to push levers,… — Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, droppi… · tree and pragmatics description: Goldfish can remember things for months: they learn to push levers, come to the sound of feeding and recognise colours, shapes and even music, so the three-second memory is a myth. Who acts: Goldfish, second memory. 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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, second memory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:13 # text = Goldfish can remember things for months: they learn to push levers, come to the sound of feeding and recognise colours, shapes and even music, so the three-second memory is a myth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.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 1 Goldfish goldfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 levers lever NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 feeding feeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 recognise recognise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 even even ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nummod 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 amod _ _ 34 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | can | Goldfish | things | | | month | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **learn** | present | Goldfish | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **push** | to-infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* | levers | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Theme | | 4 | **come** | infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* | | | the sound of feeding | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sound=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **recognise** | infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* | colours and shapes and music | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | | 6 | **is a** | present | the second memory | a myth | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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