---
title: Colossal squid have the largest eyes known of any animal, about 27 c… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics
description: Colossal squid have the largest eyes known of any animal, about 27 cm across, and the giant squid was first filmed alive in its deep home only in 2012. Who acts: Colossal squid. A sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende
---

<!-- md -->
[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/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 14

# Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Colossal squid have the largest eyes known of any animal, about 27 cm across, and the giant squid was first filmed alive in its deep home only in 2012.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Colossal squid · **What happens:** have, know, film · **To what, where:** largest eyes, giant squid, deep home

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Colossal squid), 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:14
# text = Colossal squid have the largest eyes known of any animal, about 27 cm across, and the giant squid was first filmed alive in its deep home only in 2012.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	across	across	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	advmod	_	_
23	filmed	film	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Colossal squid | the largest eyes |  |  |  | 27 cm *obl:unmarked* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the largest eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | of any animal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of animal=Stimulus |
| 3 | **film** | past · passive |  | the giant squid |  | squid's deep home |  | in 2012; alive, first *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in home=Destination |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:14`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/13/)
- next →: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/15/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/)

