Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 0
An octopus is a soft relative of snails and clams, yet it is one of the cleverest animals in the sea.
Who acts: octopus · What happens: be · To what, where: soft relative, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» 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 | 6 relative | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 relative | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 relative | det |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 relative | amod |
| 6 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 snails | case |
| 8 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 relative | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 clams | cc |
| 10 | clams | clam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 snails | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 12 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 relative | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 animals | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 animals | det |
| 18 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 animals | amod |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 animals | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 relative | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a octopus | a soft relative | of snails and clams | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | octopus | one | of the cleverest animals in the sea | tree rules |
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:234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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