--- title: An octopus has about 500 million nerve cells, about two thirds of th… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics description: An octopus has about 500 million nerve cells, about two thirds of them in its arms, and its suckers can taste what they touch. Who acts: octopus, suckers, Octopuses. A sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 8 An octopus has about 500 million nerve cells, about two thirds of them in its arms, and its suckers can taste what they touch. **Who acts:** octopus, suckers, Octopuses · **What happens:** have, taste, touch · **To what, where:** million nerve cells 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, suckers, Octopuses), 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:8 # text = An octopus has about 500 million nerve cells, about two thirds of them in its arms, and its suckers can taste what they touch. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 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 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 compound _ _ 6 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 thirds third NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 suckers sucker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 obj _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 27 . . 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 | **have** | present | a octopus | million nerve cells | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | | 2 | **taste** | can | blood's suckers | | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **touch** | present | Octopuses *= octopus* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Co-Theme | 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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/7/) - next →: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/)