Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 7

The mimic octopus copies the shapes and movements of dangerous animals such as lionfish and sea snakes; it was first noticed in 1998 off Indonesia.

Who acts: mimic octopus · What happens: copy, notice · To what, where: shapes, octopus, 1998

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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 (mimic octopus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 octopus	det
2	mimic	mimic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 octopus	amod
3	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copies	nsubj
4	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shapes	det
6	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 copies	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 movements	cc
8	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shapes	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 animals	case
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animals	amod
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shapes	nmod
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	14 lionfish	case
13	as	as	ADP	_	12 such	fixed
14	lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animals	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 snakes	cc
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snakes	compound
17	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lionfish	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 noticed	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 noticed	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 noticed	aux:pass
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 noticed	advmod
22	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 copies	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 1998	case
24	1998	1998	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 noticed	obl
25	off	off	ADP	_	26 Indonesia	case
26	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 noticed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 copies	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	the mimic octopus	the shapes of dangerous animals such lionfish and sea snakes and movements					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
2	notice	past · passive		octopus		1998		off Indonesia; first property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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, 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:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:7.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

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