--- title: Goldfish can be trained to push levers or come to a sound and rememb… — The aquarium: the coral reef tank · tree and pragmatics description: Goldfish can be trained to push levers or come to a sound and remember it for months; 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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:8 # text = Goldfish can be trained to push levers or come to a sound and remember it for months; the «three-second memory» is a myth. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 levers lever NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 21 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nummod 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 amod _ _ 24 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **train** | can · passive | | Goldfish | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **push** | to-infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* | levers | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Theme | | 3 | **come** | infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* | | | a sound | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sound=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **remember** | infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* | lever | | | month | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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