--- title: The blue-ringed octopus is small enough to sit on a hand but carries… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: The blue-ringed octopus is small enough to sit on a hand but carries venom that can stop breathing, and its blue rings flash only when it is alarmed, as a warning. Who acts: blue ringed octopus, venom, blue rings. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue ringed octopus, venom, blue rings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.lesson:9 # text = The blue-ringed octopus is small enough to sit on a hand but carries venom that can stop breathing, and its blue rings flash only when it is alarmed, as a warning. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ringed ring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 enough enough ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 breathing breathe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 flash flash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 alarmed alarm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ring** | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the blue ringed octopus | | | | | enough, small *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sit** | to-infinitive | the blue ringed octopus *not said here* | | | a hand | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hand=Location | | 4 | **carry** | present | the blue ringed octopus *not said here* | venom | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | can | venom | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **breathe** | gerund | venom *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **flash** | present | venom's blue rings | | | | | as a warning | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **alarm** | present · passive | | octopus | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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