--- title: An octopus has thousands of colour cells and can raise bumps on its… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: An octopus has thousands of colour cells and can raise bumps on its skin to copy rocks and weed in under a second, even though scientists think it cannot see colour the way we do. Who acts: octopus, scientists, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (octopus, scientists, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:10 # text = An octopus has thousands of colour cells and can raise bumps on its skin to copy rocks and weed in under a second, even though scientists think it cannot see colour the way we do. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 051-how-animals-hide.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 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 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 raise raise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 17 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 weed weed NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 though though SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 33 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obj 36 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 . . 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 | thousands of colour cells | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | | 2 | **raise** | can | a octopus *not said here* | bumps | | octopus's skin | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bump=Theme on skin=Destination | | 3 | **copy** | to-infinitive | a octopus *not said here* | rocks and weed | | | second | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **not** **see** | can | octopus | colour | | | | the way *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | | 6 | **do** | present | we | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | 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. 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