--- title: In 2016 an octopus called Inky escaped from an aquarium in New Zeala… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics description: In 2016 an octopus called Inky escaped from an aquarium in New Zealand: he slipped through a small gap at the top of his tank, crossed the floor and slid down a drainpipe into the sea. Who acts: octopus, Zealand. A sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» of the biology course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/) / 10 # Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 10 In 2016 an octopus called Inky escaped from an aquarium in New Zealand: he slipped through a small gap at the top of his tank, crossed the floor and slid down a drainpipe into the sea. **Who acts:** octopus, Zealand · **What happens:** call, escape, slip, cross, slide down · **To what, where:** octopus, 2016, small gap, floor, drainpipe, sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (octopus, Zealand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:10 # text = In 2016 an octopus called Inky escaped from an aquarium in New Zealand: he slipped through a small gap at the top of his tank, crossed the floor and slid down a drainpipe into the sea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 Inky inky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ _ 7 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 aquarium aquarium NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ _ 13 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 slid slide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 33 down down ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 drainpipe drainpipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **escape** | past | a octopus | | | 2016 | | from a aquarium in New Zealand | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from aquarium=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **slip** | past | Zealand | | | a small gap | | at the top of Zealand's tank | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **cross** | past | Zealand *not said here* | the floor | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient | | 5 | **slide down** | past | Zealand *not said here* | a drainpipe | | the sea | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent drainpipe=Theme into sea=Trajectory | 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](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. 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