--- title: Even the goldfish's «three-second memory» is a myth; scientists have… — The aquarium: the coral reef tank · tree and pragmatics description: Even the goldfish's «three-second memory» is a myth; scientists have trained goldfish to remember a sound or a lever for months. Who acts: second memory, scientists, goldfish. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/3/) [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/) / [The aquarium: the coral reef tank](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/) / 3 # The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 3 Even the goldfish's «three-second memory» is a myth; scientists have trained goldfish to remember a sound or a lever for months. **Who acts:** second memory, scientists, goldfish · **What happens:** be, train, remember · **To what, where:** myth, goldfish, sound This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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 (second memory, scientists, goldfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:3 # text = Even the goldfish's «three-second memory» is a myth; scientists have trained goldfish to remember a sound or a lever for months. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nummod 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 15 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 18 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lever lever NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the goldfish's second memory | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **train** | present · perfect | scientists | goldfish | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **remember** | to-infinitive | goldfish *not said here* | a sound or a lever | | | month | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sound=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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The aquarium: the coral reef tank, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/2/) - next →: [The aquarium: the coral reef tank, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/)