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title: An octopus has eight arms, three hearts and blue blood, and no bones… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics
description: An octopus has eight arms, three hearts and blue blood, and no bones at all except a parrot-like beak, so it can squeeze through a hole the size of a coin. Who acts: octopus, beak. A sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 1

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An octopus has eight arms, three hearts and blue blood, and no bones at all except a parrot-like beak, so it can squeeze through a hole the size of a coin.

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**Who acts:** octopus, beak · **What happens:** have, squeeze · **To what, where:** eight arms, hole

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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 (octopus, beak), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:1
# text = An octopus has eight arms, three hearts and blue blood, and no bones at all except a parrot-like beak, so it can squeeze through a hole the size of a coin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.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
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	_
18	except	except	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a octopus | eight arms and three hearts and blue blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **squeeze** | can | beak |  |  | a hole  the size of a coin |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through hole=Trajectory |

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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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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