Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 1

Put a crab in a screw-top jar and an octopus will feel it, test it and then unscrew the lid, and some have learned to open a jar from the inside.

Who acts: you, octopus, some · What happens: put, feel, test, unscrew, learn, open · To what, where: crab, top jar, octopus, lid, jar, inside

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 (you, octopus, some), 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	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crab	det
3	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 jar	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 jar	det
6	screw	screw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 top	punct
8	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 jar	amod
9	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feel	cc
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 octopus	det
12	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feel	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 feel	aux
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Put	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feel	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 test	punct
17	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 feel	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 test	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 unscrew	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 unscrew	advmod
21	unscrew	unscrew	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lid	det
23	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 unscrew	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 learned	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 learned	cc
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 learned	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 learned	aux
28	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Put	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 open	mark
30	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 learned	xcomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 jar	det
32	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 open	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 inside	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 inside	det
35	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 open	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	a crab	a top jar		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crab=Theme in jar=Destination
2	feel	future	a octopus	crab			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	test	infinitive	a octopus not said here	octopus			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	unscrew	infinitive	you not said here	the lid		then	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient
5	learn	present · perfect	some				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	open	to-infinitive	some not said here	a jar	the inside		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jar=Theme

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:1.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

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