--- title: The mimic octopus copies the shapes and movements of dangerous anima… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics description: The mimic octopus copies the shapes and movements of dangerous animals such as lionfish and sea snakes; it was first noticed in 1998 off Indonesia. Who acts: mimic octopus. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» of the biology course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/7/) [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/) / [Coral reef partners and tricksters: cl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/) / 7 # Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 7 The mimic octopus copies the shapes and movements of dangerous animals such as lionfish and sea snakes; it was first noticed in 1998 off Indonesia. **Who acts:** mimic octopus · **What happens:** copy, notice · **To what, where:** shapes, octopus, 1998 This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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 (mimic octopus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:7 # text = The mimic octopus copies the shapes and movements of dangerous animals such as lionfish and sea snakes; it was first noticed in 1998 off Indonesia. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 mimic mimic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 copies copy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 lionfish lionfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 advmod _ _ 22 noticed notice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 1998 1998 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 25 off off ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Indonesia Indonesia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | present | the mimic octopus | the shapes of dangerous animals such lionfish and sea snakes and movements | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | | 2 | **notice** | past · passive | | octopus | | 1998 | | off Indonesia; first *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | 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:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:7`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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