Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 9
Octopuses can solve puzzles, open jars, learn by watching and remember people; wild ones carry coconut shell halves to hide in.
Who acts: Octopuses, wild ones · What happens: solve, open, learn, watch, remember, carry · To what, where: puzzles, jars, people, shell halves
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, wild ones), 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 | 3 solve | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 solve | aux |
| 3 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 solve | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 jars | punct |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 solve | conj |
| 7 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 open | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 learn | punct |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 solve | conj |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 watching | mark |
| 11 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 learn | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 remember | cc |
| 13 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 learn | conj |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 remember | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ones | amod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carry | nsubj |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 solve | parataxis |
| 19 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shell | compound |
| 20 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 halves | compound |
| 21 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carry | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hide | mark |
| 23 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 halves | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADV | _ | 23 hide | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 solve | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | solve | can | Octopuses | puzzles | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | ||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | Octopuses not said here | jars | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | infinitive | Octopuses not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | Octopuses not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | remember | infinitive | Octopuses not said here | people | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 6 | carry | present | wild ones | shell halves | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hide | to-infinitive | wild ones not said here | shell halves not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: 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:9.
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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