--- title: A sea star has no brain, can regrow a lost arm, and has a simple eye… — The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars an… · tree and pragmatics description: A sea star has no brain, can regrow a lost arm, and has a simple eye spot at the tip of each arm that senses light. Who acts: sea star, arm. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/92-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, se…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/92-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea/) / 14 # The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 14 A sea star has no brain, can regrow a lost arm, and has a simple eye spot at the tip of each arm that senses light. **Who acts:** sea star, arm · **What happens:** have, regrow, lose, sense · **To what, where:** brain, lost arm, simple eye spot, tip, light 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 (sea star, arm), 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:14 # text = A sea star has no brain, can regrow a lost arm, and has a simple eye spot at the tip of each arm that senses light. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 regrow regrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:VBN:_ 12 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 senses sense VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 sea star | no brain | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | | 2 | **regrow** | can | a sea star *not said here* | a lost arm | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | a sea star *not said here* | a simple eye spot | | the tip of each arm | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 5 | **sense** | present | each arm | light | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | 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:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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