Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 18
The blue-ringed octopus is only golf-ball size, but its venom can kill an adult; its blue rings flash as a warning, so never pick up an octopus from a rock pool.
Who acts: blue ringed octopus, venom, blue rings · What happens: ring, be, kill, flash, not pick up · To what, where: ball size, adult, octopus, rock pool
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 (blue ringed octopus, venom, blue rings), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 octopus | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 octopus | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 blue | punct |
| 4 | ringed | ring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 octopus | amod |
| 5 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 size | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 size | cop |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 size | advmod |
| 8 | golf | golf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ball | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 golf | punct |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 size | compound |
| 11 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kill | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 kill | cc |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 venom | nmod:poss |
| 15 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kill | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 kill | aux |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 size | conj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 adult | det |
| 19 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kill | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 flash | punct |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 rings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rings | amod |
| 23 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 flash | nsubj |
| 24 | flash | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 size | parataxis |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 warning | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 warning | det |
| 27 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flash | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pick | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 pick | advmod |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 pick | advmod |
| 31 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 size | conj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 pick | compound:prt |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 octopus | det |
| 34 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pick | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 pool | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 pool | det |
| 37 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pool | compound |
| 38 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pick | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 size | 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 | ring | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the blue ringed octopus | ball size | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | can | size's venom | a adult | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flash | present | venom's blue rings | as a warning | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not pick up | infinitive | the blue ringed octopus not said here | a octopus | a rock pool | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent octopus=Topic |
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:18.
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 ×2, 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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