Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 11

Most octopuses seem to be colour-blind, yet they match the colours around them very well, and scientists are still working out how.

Who acts: Most octopuses, Octopuses, scientists · What happens: seem, be, match, work out · To what, where: colours

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 (Most octopuses, Octopuses, scientists), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 octopuses	amod
2	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seem	nsubj
3	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 colour	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 colour	cop
6	colour	colour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seem	xcomp
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 blind	punct
8	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colour	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 match	punct
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	12 match	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 match	nsubj
12	match	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seem	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 colours	det
14	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 match	obj
15	around	around	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 colours	nmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 well	advmod
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 match	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 working	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 working	cc
21	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 working	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 working	aux
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 working	advmod
24	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 match	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 working	compound:prt
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 working	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seem	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	Most octopuses				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Most octopuses not said here			colour property	tree rules
3	match	present	Octopuses = octopus	the colours		around colours = colour; well property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
4	work out	present · progressive	scientists		still		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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:11.

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 ×1, 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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