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title: An octopus has three hearts, two for the gills and one for the body,… — The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars an… · tree and pragmatics
description: An octopus has three hearts, two for the gills and one for the body, and its blood is blue because it uses copper instead of iron to carry oxygen. Who acts: octopus, blood. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» of the biology course of Mova's prima
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# The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 10

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An octopus has three hearts, two for the gills and one for the body, and its blood is blue because it uses copper instead of iron to carry oxygen.

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**Who acts:** octopus, blood · **What happens:** have, be, use, carry · **To what, where:** three hearts, copper, oxygen

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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 (octopus, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:10
# text = An octopus has three hearts, two for the gills and one for the body, and its blood is blue because it uses copper instead of iron to carry oxygen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.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): no change
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	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
31	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 octopus | three hearts and the two gills and the body |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | body's blood |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | present | blood | copper |  |  |  | instead iron | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copper=Patient |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | blood *not said here* | oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |

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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:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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