Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 16

Gloomy octopuses in Australia were filmed throwing silt and shells with a jet of water, sometimes at each other.

What happens: film, throw · To what, where: Gloomy octopuses, silt

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: 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	Gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 octopuses	amod
2	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 filmed	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 octopuses	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 filmed	aux:pass
6	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 filmed	advcl
8	silt	silt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throwing	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shells	cc
10	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 silt	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 jet	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 jet	det
13	jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throwing	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 water	case
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jet	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 each	punct
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 each	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 each	case
19	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 shells	obl
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 each	fixed
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 filmed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	film	past · passive		Gloomy octopuses in Australia					vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	throw	gerund		silt and shells				with a jet of water	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silt=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:16.

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 ×1, 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.

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