Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 4
Strangest of all, a baby octopus never meets its parents, so everything clever it does, it works out on its own.
Who acts: baby octopus, octopus · What happens: not meet, do, work out · To what, where: parents, own
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 (baby octopus, 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 | Strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 meets | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Strangest | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 meets | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 octopus | det |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 octopus | compound |
| 7 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meets | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 meets | advmod |
| 9 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 parents | nmod:poss |
| 11 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 meets | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clever | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 works | advmod |
| 14 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 works | dislocated |
| 15 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 everything | amod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 does | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 everything | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 works | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 works | nsubj |
| 20 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 meets | parataxis |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 works | compound:prt |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 own | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 own | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 works | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 meets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet | present | a baby octopus | octopus's parents | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present | octopus | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | work out | present | octopus | octopus's own | everything dislocated | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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 ×2. 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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