Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 11

The veined octopus of Indonesia carries coconut shell halves and closes itself inside them when danger comes, a kind of tool use.

Who acts: veined octopus, danger · What happens: vein, carry, close, come · To what, where: shell halves, octopus

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 (veined octopus, danger), 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	veined	vein	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 octopus	amod
3	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Indonesia	case
5	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 octopus	nmod
6	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shell	compound
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 halves	compound
9	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carries	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 closes	cc
11	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 carries	conj
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 closes	obj
13	inside	inside	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 closes	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 comes	advmod
16	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 closes	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kind	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 kind	det
20	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 use	case
22	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 use	compound
23	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kind	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 carries	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	vein	participle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	carry	present	the veined octopus of Indonesia	shell halves		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
3	close	present	the veined octopus of Indonesia not said here	octopus	inside enemies = enemy	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
4	come	present	danger			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:11.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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