Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 8

In 2016 an octopus called Inky was reported to have escaped from a New Zealand aquarium through a gap and down a drainpipe to the sea.

What happens: call, report, escape · To what, where: octopus, New aquarium · Speech: someone speaks here

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	In	in	ADP	_	4 octopus	case
2	2016	2016	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 reported	obl
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 octopus	det
4	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reported	nsubj:pass
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 octopus	acl
6	Inky	Inky	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reported	aux:pass
8	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 escaped	mark
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 escaped	aux
11	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 reported	xcomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 aquarium	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 aquarium	det
14	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 aquarium	compound
15	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 New	flat
16	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 escaped	obl
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 gap	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 gap	det
19	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 escaped	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drainpipe	cc
21	down	down	ADV	_	23 drainpipe	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 drainpipe	det
23	drainpipe	drainpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gap	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drainpipe	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 reported	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	a octopus not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	report	past · passive	a octopus		2016 obl	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	escape	to-infinitive · perfect		a New aquarium	through a gap and a drainpipe to the sea	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from aquarium=Initial_Location through gap=Destination

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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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