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title: Goldfish can remember things for months and learn feeding times; the… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics
description: Goldfish can remember things for months and learn feeding times; the three-second memory is a myth. Who acts: Goldfish, second memory. A sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 20

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Goldfish can remember things for months and learn feeding times; the three-second memory is a myth.

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**Who acts:** Goldfish, second memory · **What happens:** remember, learn, be · **To what, where:** things, myth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday 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 (Goldfish, second memory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.lesson:20
# text = Goldfish can remember things for months and learn feeding times; the three-second memory is a myth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
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	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nummod
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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** | infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the second memory | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:everyday:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.lesson:20`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, 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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