Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 10
In 2016 an octopus called Inky escaped from an aquarium in New Zealand: he slipped through a small gap at the top of his tank, crossed the floor and slid down a drainpipe into the sea.
Who acts: octopus, Zealand · What happens: call, escape, slip, cross, slide down · To what, where: octopus, 2016, small gap, floor, drainpipe, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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 (octopus, Zealand), 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 | _ | 2 2016 | case |
| 2 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 escaped | obl |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 octopus | det |
| 4 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escaped | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 octopus | acl |
| 6 | Inky | inky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 slipped | parataxis |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 aquarium | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 aquarium | det |
| 10 | aquarium | aquarium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escaped | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Zealand | case |
| 12 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Zealand | flat |
| 13 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 aquarium | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 octopus | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 slipped | nsubj |
| 16 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 gap | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 gap | det |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gap | amod |
| 20 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slipped | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 top | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 top | det |
| 23 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slipped | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tank | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 tank | nmod:poss |
| 26 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 top | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 crossed | punct |
| 28 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 slipped | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 floor | det |
| 30 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crossed | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 slid | cc |
| 32 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 slipped | conj |
| 33 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 slid | compound:prt |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 drainpipe | det |
| 35 | drainpipe | drainpipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 slid | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 sea | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sea | det |
| 38 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 slid | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a octopus not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | escape | past | a octopus | 2016 | from a aquarium in New Zealand | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from aquarium=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | slip | past | Zealand | a small gap | at the top of Zealand's tank | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 4 | cross | past | Zealand not said here | the floor | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient | ||||
| 5 | slide down | past | Zealand not said here | a drainpipe | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent drainpipe=Theme into sea=Trajectory |
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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:10.
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): R8-pos-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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