--- title: The blue-ringed octopus is only golf-ball size, but its venom can ki… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics description: The blue-ringed octopus is only golf-ball size, but its venom can kill an adult; its blue rings flash as a warning, so never pick up an octopus from a rock pool. Who acts: blue ringed octopus, venom, blue rings. 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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 (blue ringed octopus, venom, blue rings), 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:18 # text = The blue-ringed octopus is only golf-ball size, but its venom can kill an adult; its blue rings flash as a warning, so never pick up an octopus from a rock pool. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ringed ring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 golf golf NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 flash flash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 25 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ring** | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | the blue ringed octopus | ball size | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **kill** | can | size's venom | a adult | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | | 4 | **flash** | present | venom's blue rings | | | | | as a warning | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **pick up** | infinitive | the blue ringed octopus *not said here* | a octopus | | a rock pool | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent octopus=Topic | 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:18`. **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 ×2, 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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/17/) - next →: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/)