The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 9

Octopuses can learn to unscrew jar lids, even from the inside, and their eight arms are full of nerve cells, so each arm can touch, taste and act partly on its own.

Who acts: Octopuses, eight arms, arm · What happens: learn, unscrew, be, touch, taste, act · To what, where: jar lids, own

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 (Octopuses, eight arms, arm), 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 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 unscrew	mark
5	unscrew	unscrew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lids	compound
7	lids	lid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unscrew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 inside	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	12 inside	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 inside	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 inside	det
12	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unscrew	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 full	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 full	cc
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arms	nmod:poss
16	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 arms	nummod
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 full	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 full	cop
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 learn	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 cells	case
21	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cells	compound
22	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 full	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 touch	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	28 touch	advmod
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 arm	det
26	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 touch	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 touch	aux
28	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 full	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 taste	punct
30	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 touch	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 act	cc
32	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 touch	conj
33	partly	partly	ADV	_	32 act	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 own	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 own	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 act	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	can	Octopuses				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	unscrew	to-infinitive	Octopuses not said here	jar lids		from the inside	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent lid=Patient from inside=Co-Patient
3	is	present	octopuses's eight arms			of nerve cells; full property	tree rules
4	touch	can	each arm				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	taste	infinitive	each arm not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	act	infinitive	each arm not said here		inside's own	partly property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on own=Eventuality

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: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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