--- title: Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish squirt ink made of melanin to hide o… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics description: Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish squirt ink made of melanin to hide or to make a fake blob while they jet away; cooks use squid ink to colour pasta black. Who acts: Octopuses, cooks. 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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 (Octopuses, cooks), 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:13 # text = Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish squirt ink made of melanin to hide or to make a fake blob while they jet away; cooks use squid ink to colour pasta black. # 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 Octopuses octopus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 cuttlefish cuttlefish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 squirt squirt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 melanin melanin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 blob blob NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 jet jet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 24 cooks cook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 26 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 colour colour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 30 pasta pasta NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squirt** | present | Octopuses and squid and cuttlefish | ink | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ink=Theme | | 2 | **make** | participle | | ink *not said here* | | | | of melanin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | | a fake blob | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blob=Product | | 5 | **jet away** | present | Octopuses *= octopus* | | | | | away *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 6 | **use** | present | cooks | squid ink | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ink=Patient | | 7 | **colour** | to-infinitive | cooks *not said here* | pasta | | | | black *property* | tree rules | 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:13`. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/12/) - next →: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/)