--- title: An octopus has about 500 million nerve cells, and about two thirds o… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: An octopus has about 500 million nerve cells, and about two thirds of them are in its eight arms, which can taste and feel and act partly on their own. Who acts: octopus, eight arms. 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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, eight arms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:068-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:17 # text = An octopus has about 500 million nerve cells, and about two thirds of them are in its eight arms, which can taste and feel and act partly on their own. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 068-the-brain-and-nerves.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): R3-conj-first ×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 , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 thirds third NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 29 partly partly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a octopus | million nerve cells and two thirds of thirds | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | octopus's eight arms | | | tree rules | | 3 | **taste** | can | octopus's eight arms | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | octopus's eight arms *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **act** | infinitive | octopus's eight arms *not said here* | | | arms's own | | partly *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on own=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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