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title: An octopus has eight arms, three hearts and blue blood: two hearts p… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics
description: An octopus has eight arms, three hearts and blue blood: two hearts pump blood through the gills and the third round the body. Who acts: octopus, two hearts. A sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 5

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An octopus has eight arms, three hearts and blue blood: two hearts pump blood through the gills and the third round the body.

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**Who acts:** octopus, two hearts · **What happens:** have, pump · **To what, where:** eight arms, blood, gills

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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 (octopus, two hearts), 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:5
# text = An octopus has eight arms, three hearts and blue blood: two hearts pump blood through the gills and the third round the body.
# 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): no change
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pump	pump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	conj	_	_
23	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a octopus | eight arms and three hearts and blue blood |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 2 | **pump** | present | two hearts | blood |  | the gills |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme through gill=Destination |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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/).

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