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title: Scientists have trained goldfish to remember things for weeks and ev… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists have trained goldfish to remember things for weeks and even months; the "three-second memory" is a myth. Who acts: Scientists, goldfish, second memory. A sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 16

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Scientists have trained goldfish to remember things for weeks and even months; the "three-second memory" is a myth.

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**Who acts:** Scientists, goldfish, second memory · **What happens:** train, remember, be · **To what, where:** goldfish, things, myth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world 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 (Scientists, goldfish, second memory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:16
# text = Scientists have trained goldfish to remember things for weeks and even months; the "three-second memory" is a myth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nummod
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
24	.	.	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 | **train** | present · perfect | Scientists | goldfish |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **remember** | to-infinitive | goldfish *not said here* | things |  |  | week |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 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:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:16`.

**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, 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/).

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