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title: Octopuses can recognise people, and one in a lab squirted water at a… — Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puz… · tree and pragmatics
description: Octopuses can recognise people, and one in a lab squirted water at a keeper it disliked, and one in a German aquarium squirted water at a bright lamp that bothered it until the lamp short-circuited. Who acts: Octopuses, one, octopus, bright lamp. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: the octopus, 
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# Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 12

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Octopuses can recognise people, and one in a lab squirted water at a keeper it disliked, and one in a German aquarium squirted water at a bright lamp that bothered it until the lamp short-circuited.

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**Who acts:** Octopuses, one, octopus, bright lamp, lamp · **What happens:** recognise, squirt, dislike, bother, circuit · **To what, where:** people, water, keeper, bright lamp, 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 (Octopuses, one, octopus, bright lamp), 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:12
# text = Octopuses can recognise people, and one in a lab squirted water at a keeper it disliked, and one in a German aquarium squirted water at a bright lamp that bothered it until the lamp short-circuited.
# 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	Octopuses	octopus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lab	lab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	squirted	squirt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	disliked	dislike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	squirted	squirt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	bothered	bother	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	compound	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
39	circuited	circuit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | can | Octopuses | people |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 2 | **squirt** | past | one in a lab | water |  | a keeper |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent water=Theme at keeper=Destination |
| 3 | **dislike** | past | octopus | a keeper *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer keeper=Stimulus |
| 4 | **squirt** | past | one in a German aquarium | water |  | a bright lamp |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent water=Theme at lamp=Destination |
| 5 | **bother** | past | a bright lamp | octopus |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 6 | **circuit** | participle | the lamp |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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.

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