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title: Put a crab in a screw-top jar and an octopus will feel it, test it a… — Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puz… · tree and pragmatics
description: Put a crab in a screw-top jar and an octopus will feel it, test it and then unscrew the lid, and some have learned to open a jar from the inside. Who acts: you, octopus, some. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» of the biology course of Mova's primar
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# Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 1

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Put a crab in a screw-top jar and an octopus will feel it, test it and then unscrew the lid, and some have learned to open a jar from the inside.

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**Who acts:** you, octopus, some · **What happens:** put, feel, test, unscrew, learn, open · **To what, where:** crab, top jar, octopus, lid, jar, inside

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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 (you, octopus, some), 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:1
# text = Put a crab in a screw-top jar and an octopus will feel it, test it and then unscrew the lid, and some have learned to open a jar from the inside.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	screw	screw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	test	test	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	unscrew	unscrew	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | a crab |  | a top jar |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crab=Theme in jar=Destination |
| 2 | **feel** | future | a octopus | crab |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **test** | infinitive | a octopus *not said here* | octopus |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **unscrew** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the lid |  |  | then |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient |
| 5 | **learn** | present · perfect | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **open** | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | a jar |  | the inside |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jar=Theme |

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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:1`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

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