--- title: Most octopuses seem to be colour-blind, yet they match the colours a… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics description: Most octopuses seem to be colour-blind, yet they match the colours around them very well, and scientists are still working out how. Who acts: Most octopuses, Octopuses, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/11/) [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/) / [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/) / 11 # Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 11 Most octopuses seem to be colour-blind, yet they match the colours around them very well, and scientists are still working out how. **Who acts:** Most octopuses, Octopuses, scientists · **What happens:** seem, be, match, work out · **To what, where:** colours 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 (Most octopuses, Octopuses, scientists), 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:11 # text = Most octopuses seem to be colour-blind, yet they match the colours around them very well, and scientists are still working out how. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 octopuses octopus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 colour colour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 8 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 match match VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 around around ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | present | Most octopuses | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Most octopuses *not said here* | | | | | colour *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **match** | present | Octopuses *= octopus* | the colours | | | | around colours *= colour*; well *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 4 | **work out** | present · progressive | scientists | | | | still | | 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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:11`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/10/) - next →: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/)