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title: The veined octopus of Indonesia carries coconut shell halves and clo… — Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puz… · tree and pragmatics
description: The veined octopus of Indonesia carries coconut shell halves and closes itself inside them when danger comes, a kind of tool use. Who acts: veined octopus, danger. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 11

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The veined octopus of Indonesia carries coconut shell halves and closes itself inside them when danger comes, a kind of tool use.

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**Who acts:** veined octopus, danger · **What happens:** vein, carry, close, come · **To what, where:** shell halves, octopus

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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 (veined octopus, danger), 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:11
# text = The veined octopus of Indonesia carries coconut shell halves and closes itself inside them when danger comes, a kind of tool use.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	veined	vein	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound
8	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **vein** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | present | the veined octopus of Indonesia | shell halves |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme |
| 3 | **close** | present | the veined octopus of Indonesia *not said here* | octopus |  |  |  | inside enemies *= enemy* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | present | danger |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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 ×2, R6-punct-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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