Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 10

Octopuses are thought to be colour-blind, yet they match their background so well that scientists still argue about how.

Who acts: enemies, scientists · What happens: think, be, match, argue · To what, where: Octopuses, background

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 (enemies, scientists), 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	Octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	aux:pass
3	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 colour	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 colour	cop
6	colour	colour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	xcomp
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 blind	punct
8	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colour	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 match	punct
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	12 match	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 match	nsubj
12	match	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 background	nmod:poss
14	background	background	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 match	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 match	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 argue	mark
18	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 argue	nsubj
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 argue	advmod
20	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 match	advcl
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 how	case
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 argue	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · passive		Octopuses			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive				colour property	tree rules
3	be						tree rules
4	match	present	enemies = enemy	enemies's background		well property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent background=Patient
5	argue speech: disagree	present	scientists		still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:10.

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): 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.

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