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title: In cartoons octopuses wave «tentacles», every spider has two big eye… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, te… · tree and pragmatics
description: In cartoons octopuses wave «tentacles», every spider has two big eyes and the centipede proudly wears 100 shoes; real animals break every one of those rules, so always count for yourself. Who acts: octopuses, spider, centipede, real animals. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, he
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# Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 3

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In cartoons octopuses wave «tentacles», every spider has two big eyes and the centipede proudly wears 100 shoes; real animals break every one of those rules, so always count for yourself.

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**Who acts:** octopuses, spider, centipede, real animals · **What happens:** wave, have, wear, break, count · **To what, where:** tentacles, two big eyes, 100 shoes, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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, spider, centipede, real animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:041-counting-animals.lesson:3
# text = In cartoons octopuses wave «tentacles», every spider has two big eyes and the centipede proudly wears 100 shoes; real animals break every one of those rules, so always count for yourself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 041-counting-animals.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wave	wave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
17	centipede	centipede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod
19	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	34	advmod	_	_
34	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **wave** | present | octopuses | tentacles |  |  |  | in cartoons | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tentacle=Patient in cartoon=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | every spider | two big eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 3 | **wear** | present | the centipede | 100 shoes |  |  |  | proudly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | present | real animals | every one of that rules |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient |
| 5 | **count** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for yourself; always *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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