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title: Goldfish can remember things for months and can be trained to respon… — Animals in the sea and the river · tree and pragmatics
description: Goldfish can remember things for months and can be trained to respond to sounds and push levers for food. Who acts: Goldfish. A sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 6

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Goldfish can remember things for months and can be trained to respond to sounds and push levers for food.

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**Who acts:** Goldfish · **What happens:** remember, train, respond, push · **To what, where:** things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:6
# text = Goldfish can remember things for months and can be trained to respond to sounds and push levers for food.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.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, 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	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	respond	respond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	levers	lever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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 | **train** | can · passive | Goldfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **respond** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to sounds for food and levers | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sound=Theme |
| 4 | **push** | infinitive | Goldfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:6`.

**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 ×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/).

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