Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 17
The mimic octopus, discovered in 1998 off Indonesia, copies the shape and movement of dangerous animals like sea snakes and flatfish.
Who acts: mimic octopus · What happens: discover, copy · To what, where: 1998, shape
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 (mimic octopus), 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 | mimic | mimic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 octopus | amod |
| 3 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 octopus | punct |
| 5 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1998 | case |
| 7 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 discovered | obl |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 Indonesia | case |
| 9 | Indonesia | Indonesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 copies | punct |
| 11 | copies | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 discovered | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shape | det |
| 13 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 copies | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 movement | cc |
| 15 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shape | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 animals | case |
| 17 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animals | amod |
| 18 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shape | nmod |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 snakes | case |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 snakes | compound |
| 21 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 animals | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flatfish | cc |
| 23 | flatfish | flatfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 snakes | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 copies | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | the mimic octopus | 1998 | off Indonesia | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | copy | present | the mimic octopus not said here | the shape of dangerous animals like sea snakes and flatfish and movement | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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:17.
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, 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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