The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 2

An octopus is the opposite, a clever animal with a big brain, three hearts and blue blood, and so soft that it can pour itself through a gap no bigger than its beak.

Who acts: octopus, heart · What happens: be, pour · To what, where: opposite, heart, gap

This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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 (octopus, heart), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 octopus	det
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opposite	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 opposite	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 opposite	det
5	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animal	amod
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opposite	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 brain	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 brain	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brain	amod
13	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 animal	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hearts	punct
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hearts	nummod
16	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 brain	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 blood	cc
18	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 blood	amod
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hearts	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 soft	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 soft	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 soft	advmod
23	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 opposite	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 pour	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pour	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 pour	aux
27	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 soft	advcl
28	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 pour	obj
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 gap	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 gap	det
31	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pour	obl
32	no	no	ADV	_	33 bigger	advmod
33	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 pour	advcl
34	than	than	ADP	_	36 beak	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 beak	nmod:poss
36	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bigger	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opposite	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	a octopus	the opposite		tree rules
2	be		a octopus not said here			tree rules
3	pour	can	heart	heart	a gap	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=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:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:2.

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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