Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 16
A squid moves fast by jet propulsion: it squirts water out through a funnel called a siphon and shoots the other way.
Who acts: squid, funnel · What happens: move, squirt out, call, shoot · To what, where: water, funnel, siphon, other way · 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 (squid, funnel), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 squid | det |
| 2 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 moves | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 propulsion | case |
| 6 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 propulsion | compound |
| 7 | propulsion | propulsion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 squirts | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 squirts | nsubj |
| 10 | squirts | squirt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moves | parataxis |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 squirts | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 squirts | compound:prt |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 funnel | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 funnel | det |
| 15 | funnel | funnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 squirts | obl |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 funnel | acl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 siphon | det |
| 18 | siphon | siphon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shoots | cc |
| 20 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 squirts | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 way | amod |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shoots | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | a squid | by jet propulsion; fast property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by propulsion=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | squirt out | present | squid | water | a funnel | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme through funnel=Destination | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a funnel not said here | a siphon | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shoot | present | squid not said here | the other way | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:16.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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