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title: A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails · tree and pragmatics
description: A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with suckers only on their wide tips, ten limbs in all. Who acts: squid. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 8

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A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with suckers only on their wide tips, ten limbs in all.

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**Who acts:** squid · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** eight arms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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 (squid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.lesson:8
# text = A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with suckers only on their wide tips, ten limbs in all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	cuttlefish	cuttlefish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	suckers	sucker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a squid or cuttlefish | eight arms plus two longer tentacles |  |  |  | with suckers on arms's wide tips and ten limbs in all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |

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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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**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:040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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