--- title: A mother octopus guards and cleans her eggs without eating until the… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics description: A mother octopus guards and cleans her eggs without eating until they hatch, and soon after she dies; one deep-sea mother guarded hers for four and a half years. Who acts: mother, eggs, one sea mother. 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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 (mother, eggs, one sea mother), 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:19 # text = A mother octopus guards and cleans her eggs without eating until they hatch, and soon after she dies; one deep-sea mother guarded hers for four and a half years. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 4 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 cleans clean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 without without SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 11 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 17 after after SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 22 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 guarded guard VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 hers her PRON PRP Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det 32 half half ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 33 amod _ _ 33 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guard** | present | a mother | mother's eggs | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary | | 2 | **clean** | present | a mother *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | a mother *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hatch** | present | eggs *= egg* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **die** | present | mother | | | | | soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **guard** | past | one sea mother | | adult | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Beneficiary | 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. 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