--- title: Strangest of all, a baby octopus never meets its parents, so everyth… — Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puz… · tree and pragmatics description: Strangest of all, a baby octopus never meets its parents, so everything clever it does, it works out on its own. Who acts: baby octopus, 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 t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Animal minds: the octopus, escape arti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver/) / 4 # Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 4 Strangest of all, a baby octopus never meets its parents, so everything clever it does, it works out on its own. **Who acts:** baby octopus, octopus · **What happens:** not meet, do, work out · **To what, where:** parents, own 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 (baby octopus, 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:4 # text = Strangest of all, a baby octopus never meets its parents, so everything clever it does, it works out on its own. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Strangest strange ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 advmod _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 1 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 14 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 20 dislocated _ _ 15 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **meet** | present | a baby octopus | octopus's parents | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Co-Agent | | 2 | **do** | present | octopus | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **work out** | present | octopus | | | octopus's own | | everything *dislocated* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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