--- title: Octopuses can solve puzzles, open jars, learn by watching and rememb… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics description: Octopuses can solve puzzles, open jars, learn by watching and remember people; wild ones carry coconut shell halves to hide in. Who acts: Octopuses, wild ones. A sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 9 Octopuses can solve puzzles, open jars, learn by watching and remember people; wild ones carry coconut shell halves to hide in. **Who acts:** Octopuses, wild ones · **What happens:** solve, open, learn, watch, remember, carry · **To what, where:** puzzles, jars, people, shell halves 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 (Octopuses, wild ones), 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:9 # text = Octopuses can solve puzzles, open jars, learn by watching and remember people; wild ones carry coconut shell halves to hide in. # 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 Octopuses octopus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 solve solve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 7 jars jar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 10 by by SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 coconut coconut NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 halves half NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 in in ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . 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 | **solve** | can | Octopuses | puzzles | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | | 2 | **open** | infinitive | Octopuses *not said here* | jars | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jar=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | infinitive | Octopuses *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **watch** | gerund | Octopuses *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **remember** | infinitive | Octopuses *not said here* | people | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 6 | **carry** | present | wild ones | shell halves | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme | | 7 | **hide** | to-infinitive | wild ones *not said here* | shell halves *not said here* | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/8/) - next →: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/)