--- title: Its brain is spread out: one main brain in the head, and big bundles… — Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puz… · tree and pragmatics description: Its brain is spread out: one main brain in the head, and big bundles of nerve cells in each of its eight arms, which taste and feel everything they touch. Who acts: eight arms, arms. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eight arms, arms), 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:2 # text = Its brain is spread out: one main brain in the head, and big bundles of nerve cells in each of its eight arms, which taste and feel everything they touch. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bundles bundle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 taste taste VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 31 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 obj _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread out** | present · passive | | octopus's brain | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **taste** | present | octopus's eight arms | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **feel** | present | octopus's eight arms *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | | 4 | **touch** | present | arms *= arm* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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