--- title: Octopus skin has thousands of tiny colour bags it can open and close… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics description: Octopus skin has thousands of tiny colour bags it can open and close in a fraction of a second, and it can raise bumps to copy the texture of rock. Who acts: Octopus skin, skin. A sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 12 Octopus skin has thousands of tiny colour bags it can open and close in a fraction of a second, and it can raise bumps to copy the texture of rock. **Who acts:** Octopus skin, skin · **What happens:** have, open, close, raise, copy · **To what, where:** thousands, tiny colour bags, bumps, texture 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 skin, skin), 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:12 # text = Octopus skin has thousands of tiny colour bags it can open and close in a fraction of a second, and it can raise bumps to copy the texture of rock. # 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 1 Octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fraction fraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 raise raise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 25 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 texture texture NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . 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 | **have** | present | Octopus skin | thousands of tiny colour bags | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | | 2 | **open** | can | skin | tiny colour bags *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme | | 3 | **close** | infinitive | skin *not said here* | | | | | in a fraction of a second | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fraction=Topic | | 4 | **raise** | can | skin | bumps | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bump=Theme | | 5 | **copy** | to-infinitive | skin *not said here* | the texture of rock | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent texture=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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:12`. **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. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/11/) - next →: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/)