Masters of camouflage, sentence 8
An octopus, a cousin of the cuttlefish, normally has eight arms and can change colour and blend into rocks and walls too.
Who acts: octopus · What happens: have, change, blend · To what, where: eight arms, colour
This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» 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 (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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 octopus | det |
| 2 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cousin | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cousin | det |
| 5 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 octopus | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cuttlefish | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cuttlefish | det |
| 8 | cuttlefish | cuttlefish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cousin | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 octopus | punct |
| 10 | normally | normally | ADV | _ | 11 has | advmod |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 arms | nummod |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 has | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 change | cc |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 change | aux |
| 16 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 has | conj |
| 17 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 change | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blend | cc |
| 19 | blend | blend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 change | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 rocks | case |
| 21 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blend | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 walls | cc |
| 23 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rocks | conj |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 blend | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a octopus | eight arms | normally property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | |||
| 2 | change | can | a octopus not said here | colour | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | ||||
| 3 | blend | infinitive | a octopus not said here | into rocks and walls | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into rock=Co-Patient |
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:189-masters-of-camouflage.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): R5-strong ×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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