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title: In 2016 an octopus called Inky was reported to have escaped from a N… — Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puz… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2016 an octopus called Inky was reported to have escaped from a New Zealand aquarium through a gap and down a drainpipe to the sea. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 8

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In 2016 an octopus called Inky was reported to have escaped from a New Zealand aquarium through a gap and down a drainpipe to the sea.

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**What happens:** call, report, escape · **To what, where:** octopus, New aquarium · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver.lesson:8
# text = In 2016 an octopus called Inky was reported to have escaped from a New Zealand aquarium through a gap and down a drainpipe to the sea.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nummod
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	Inky	Inky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	xcomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	drainpipe	drainpipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | a octopus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **report** | past · passive |  | a octopus |  |  |  | 2016 *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  | a New aquarium |  | through a gap and a drainpipe to the sea | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from aquarium=Initial\_Location through gap=Destination |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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