Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 6
The octopus's body heart stops while it swims, so swimming tires it quickly, and octopuses mostly crawl over the rocks instead.
Who acts: body heart, blood, octopuses · What happens: stop, swim, tire, crawl · To what, where: blood, rocks
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 (body heart, blood, octopuses), 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 | 2 octopus | det |
| 2 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 octopus | case |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | compound |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stops | nsubj |
| 6 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 swims | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 swims | nsubj |
| 9 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stops | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swims | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 tires | advmod |
| 12 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 tires | nsubj |
| 13 | tires | tire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stops | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tires | obj |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 tires | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crawl | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crawl | cc |
| 18 | octopuses | octopus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crawl | nsubj |
| 19 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 20 crawl | advmod |
| 20 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stops | conj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 rocks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rocks | det |
| 23 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crawl | obl |
| 24 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 20 crawl | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the octopus's body heart | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | swim | present | blood | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | tire | present | blood | quickly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | crawl | present | octopuses | the rocks | instead, mostly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rock=Trajectory |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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