The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 8

An octopus has no bones, and its beak is its only hard part, so it can squeeze through any hole bigger than the beak; octopuses have escaped from aquarium tanks.

Who acts: octopus, beak, octopuses · What happens: have, be, squeeze, escape · To what, where: bones, hard part, hole, aquarium tanks

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, beak, 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 octopus	det
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 bones	det
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 part	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 part	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 beak	nmod:poss
9	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 part	cop
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 part	nmod:poss
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 hard	advmod
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 squeeze	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 squeeze	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 squeeze	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 squeeze	aux
19	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 part	advcl
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 hole	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 hole	det
22	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 squeeze	obl
23	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 hole	amod
24	than	than	ADP	_	26 beak	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beak	det
26	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bigger	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 escaped	punct
28	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 escaped	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 escaped	aux
30	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 has	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 tanks	case
32	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tanks	compound
33	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 escaped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a octopus	no bones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	is a	present	stage's beak	stage's hard part		tree rules
3	squeeze	can	beak		any hole	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through hole=Trajectory
4	escape	present · perfect	octopuses		aquarium tanks	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tank=Initial_Location

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:8.

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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