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title: An octopus is a soft relative of snails and clams, yet it is one of… — Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puz… · tree and pragmatics
description: An octopus is a soft relative of snails and clams, yet it is one of the cleverest animals in the sea. Who acts: octopus. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 0

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An octopus is a soft relative of snails and clams, yet it is one of the cleverest animals in the sea.

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**Who acts:** octopus · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** soft relative, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» 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:234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver.lesson:0
# text = An octopus is a soft relative of snails and clams, yet it is one of the cleverest animals in the sea.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver.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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	clams	clam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	cleverest	clever	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a octopus | a soft relative |  |  |  | of snails and clams | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | octopus | one |  |  |  | of the cleverest animals in the sea | tree rules |

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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:234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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