--- title: An octopus has no bones, so it can squeeze through any gap bigger th… — The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark · tree and pragmatics description: An octopus has no bones, so it can squeeze through any gap bigger than its hard beak; it has 3 hearts, 8 arms and blue blood, and most of its nerve cells are in its arms. Who acts: octopus, most. 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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, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:008-the-ocean.lesson:11 # text = An octopus has no bones, so it can squeeze through any gap bigger than its hard beak; it has 3 hearts, 8 arms and blue blood, and most of its nerve cells are in its arms. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 008-the-ocean.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 squeeze squeeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 14 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 32 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 41 . . 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 | no bones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 2 | **squeeze** | can | octopus | | | any gap | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory | | 3 | **have** | present | octopus | 3 hearts and 8 arms and blue blood | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | most octopus's nerve cells | | | | | of octopus's arms | tree rules | 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:008-the-ocean.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/10/) - next →: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/)