Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 3
It can open a jar to reach a crab, turn sandy grey to vanish against a rock, and squirt a cloud of ink, the same black that colours squid ink pasta.
Who acts: beak, same black · What happens: open, reach, turn, vanish, squirt, colour · To what, where: jar, crab, sandy grey, cloud, ink pasta, ink
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 (beak, same black), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 open | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | aux |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 jar | det |
| 5 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reach | mark |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 open | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crab | det |
| 9 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turn | punct |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 open | conj |
| 12 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grey | amod |
| 13 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 vanish | mark |
| 15 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 turn | advcl |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vanish | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 squirt | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 squirt | cc |
| 21 | squirt | squirt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 open | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cloud | det |
| 23 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 squirt | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 ink | case |
| 25 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cloud | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 black | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 black | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 black | amod |
| 29 | black | black | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cloud | appos |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 colours | nsubj |
| 31 | colours | colour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 black | acl:relcl |
| 32 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ink | compound |
| 33 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pasta | compound |
| 34 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 colours | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | can | beak | a jar | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | beak not said here | a crab | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent crab=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | infinitive | beak not said here | sandy grey | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grey=Theme | ||||
| 4 | vanish | to-infinitive | beak not said here | against a rock | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | squirt | infinitive | beak not said here | a cloud of ink | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | ||||
| 6 | colour | present | the same black | ink pasta | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | cloud | ink | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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:3.
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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