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title: An octopus, a cousin of the cuttlefish, normally has eight arms and… — Masters of camouflage · tree and pragmatics
description: An octopus, a cousin of the cuttlefish, normally has eight arms and can change colour and blend into rocks and walls too. Who acts: octopus. A sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Masters of camouflage, sentence 8

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An octopus, a cousin of the cuttlefish, normally has eight arms and can change colour and blend into rocks and walls too.

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**Who acts:** octopus · **What happens:** have, change, blend · **To what, where:** eight arms, colour

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:8
# text = An octopus, a cousin of the cuttlefish, normally has eight arms and can change colour and blend into rocks and walls too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 189-masters-of-camouflage.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
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cuttlefish	cuttlefish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	normally	normally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	blend	blend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a octopus | eight arms |  |  |  | normally *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 2 | **change** | can | a octopus *not said here* | colour |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
| 3 | **blend** | infinitive | a octopus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into rocks and walls | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into rock=Co-Patient |

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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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**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:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:8`.

**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. **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/).

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