--- title: It can open a jar to reach a crab, turn sandy grey to vanish against… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics description: It can open a jar to reach a crab, turn sandy grey to vanish against a rock, and squirt a cloud of ink, the same black that colours squid ink pasta. Who acts: beak, same black. 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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 (beak, same black), 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:3 # text = It can open a jar to reach a crab, turn sandy grey to vanish against a rock, and squirt a cloud of ink, the same black that colours squid ink pasta. # 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 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 sandy sandy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 against against ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 squirt squirt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 black black NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 colours colour VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 pasta pasta NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **open** | can | beak | a jar | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jar=Theme | | 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | beak *not said here* | a crab | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent crab=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | infinitive | beak *not said here* | sandy grey | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grey=Theme | | 4 | **vanish** | to-infinitive | beak *not said here* | | | | | against a rock | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **squirt** | infinitive | beak *not said here* | a cloud of ink | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | | 6 | **colour** | present | the same black | ink pasta | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **cloud** | | | ink | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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:3`. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/2/) - next →: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/)