Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 12

Octopuses can recognise people, and one in a lab squirted water at a keeper it disliked, and one in a German aquarium squirted water at a bright lamp that bothered it until the lamp short-circuited.

Who acts: Octopuses, one, octopus, bright lamp, lamp · What happens: recognise, squirt, dislike, bother, circuit · To what, where: people, water, keeper, bright lamp, 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 (Octopuses, one, octopus, bright lamp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

changed polarity=none

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.

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