Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 12

Octopus skin has thousands of tiny colour bags it can open and close in a fraction of a second, and it can raise bumps to copy the texture of rock.

Who acts: Octopus skin, skin · What happens: have, open, close, raise, copy · To what, where: thousands, tiny colour bags, bumps, texture

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 skin, skin), 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	Octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skin	compound
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 bags	case
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bags	amod
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bags	compound
8	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thousands	nmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 open	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 open	aux
11	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bags	acl:relcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 close	cc
13	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 open	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 fraction	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fraction	det
16	fraction	fraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 close	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 second	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 second	det
19	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 fraction	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 raise	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 raise	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 raise	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 raise	aux
24	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 open	conj
25	bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 raise	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 copy	mark
27	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 raise	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 texture	det
29	texture	texture	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 copy	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 rock	case
31	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 texture	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Octopus skin	thousands of tiny colour bags		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient
2	open	can	skin	tiny colour bags not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme
3	close	infinitive	skin not said here		in a fraction of a second	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fraction=Topic
4	raise	can	skin	bumps		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bump=Theme
5	copy	to-infinitive	skin not said here	the texture of rock		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent texture=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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:12.

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. 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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