--- title: A deep-sea octopus was watched guarding her eggs for about four and… — Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the… · tree and pragmatics description: A deep-sea octopus was watched guarding her eggs for about four and a half years, the longest egg-guarding time known, because eggs grow very slowly in the cold. Who acts: sea octopus, eggs. 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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 (sea octopus, eggs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight.lesson:14 # text = A deep-sea octopus was watched guarding her eggs for about four and a half years, the longest egg-guarding time known, because eggs grow very slowly in the cold. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 guarding guard VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 17 compound _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 20 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 21 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 guarding guard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 compound _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 25 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | past · passive | | a sea octopus | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **guard** | gerund | a sea octopus *not said here* | animal's eggs | | | | for four and half years | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary | | 3 | **guard** | gerund | | | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** | participle | | the longest guarding time *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **grow** | present | eggs | | | the cold | | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cold=Location | 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:177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight.lesson:14`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron sn…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight/13/) - next →: [Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron sn…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight/)