Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 13

Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish squirt ink made of melanin to hide or to make a fake blob while they jet away; cooks use squid ink to colour pasta black.

Who acts: Octopuses, cooks · What happens: squirt, make, hide, jet away, use, colour · To what, where: ink, fake blob, squid ink, pasta

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 (Octopuses, cooks), 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	Octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 squirt	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 squid	punct
3	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Octopuses	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cuttlefish	cc
5	cuttlefish	cuttlefish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squid	conj
6	squirt	squirt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squirt	obj
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ink	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 melanin	case
10	melanin	melanin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hide	mark
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 melanin	acl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 make	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hide	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 blob	det
17	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 blob	amod
18	blob	blob	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 jet	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 jet	nsubj
21	jet	jet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 make	advcl
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 jet	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 squirt	punct
24	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 use	nsubj
25	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 squirt	parataxis
26	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ink	compound
27	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 use	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 colour	mark
29	colour	colour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 use	advcl
30	pasta	pasta	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 colour	obj
31	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 colour	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	squirt	present	Octopuses and squid and cuttlefish	ink		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ink=Theme
2	make	participle		ink not said here	of melanin	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	hide	to-infinitive				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	to-infinitive		a fake blob		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blob=Product
5	jet away	present	Octopuses = octopus		away property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
6	use	present	cooks	squid ink		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ink=Patient
7	colour	to-infinitive	cooks not said here	pasta	black property	tree rules

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:13.

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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