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title: Dumbo octopuses have fins that look like elephant ears, and they liv… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dumbo octopuses have fins that look like elephant ears, and they live deeper than any other known octopus, at nearly seven kilometres. Who acts: Dumbo octopuses, fins, octopuses. A sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» of the biology course of Mova
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# The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 8

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Dumbo octopuses have fins that look like elephant ears, and they live deeper than any other known octopus, at nearly seven kilometres.

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**Who acts:** Dumbo octopuses, fins, octopuses · **What happens:** have, look, live, know · **To what, where:** fins, seven kilometres

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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 (Dumbo octopuses, fins, octopuses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:8
# text = Dumbo octopuses have fins that look like elephant ears, and they live deeper than any other known octopus, at nearly seven kilometres.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.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): no change
1	Dumbo	dumbo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Dumbo octopuses | fins |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | present | fins |  |  |  |  | like elephant ears | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** | present | octopuses *= octopus* |  |  | seven kilometres |  | deep *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Location |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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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