Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 15

In a test like the marshmallow test, cuttlefish waited for a shrimp they liked rather than take a less-liked crab at once.

Who acts: cuttlefish · What happens: wait, like, take · To what, where: test, shrimp, liked crab

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 (cuttlefish), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 test	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 test	det
3	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waited	obl
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 test	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 test	det
6	marshmallow	marshmallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 test	compound
7	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 test	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 test	punct
9	cuttlefish	cuttlefish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 waited	nsubj
10	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 shrimp	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shrimp	det
13	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waited	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 liked	nsubj
15	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shrimp	acl:relcl
16	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	18 take	cc
17	than	than	ADP	_	16 rather	fixed
18	take	take	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 waited	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 crab	det
20	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 liked	advmod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 liked	punct
22	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 crab	amod
23	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	_	18 take	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 waited	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	cuttlefish		a test like the marshmallow test	for a shrimp	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in test=Location
2	like	past	cuttlefish	a shrimp not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shrimp=Theme
3	take	infinitive	cuttlefish not said here	a liked crab			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent crab=Theme at once=Asset
4	like	participle				less property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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:15.

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): R7-rel-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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