--- title: Octopuses can learn to unscrew jar lids, even from the inside, and t… — The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars an… · tree and pragmatics description: Octopuses can learn to unscrew jar lids, even from the inside, and their eight arms are full of nerve cells, so each arm can touch, taste and act partly on its own. Who acts: Octopuses, eight arms, arm. 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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 (Octopuses, eight arms, 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:9 # text = Octopuses can learn to unscrew jar lids, even from the inside, and their eight arms are full of nerve cells, so each arm can touch, taste and act partly on its own. # 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 Octopuses octopus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 unscrew unscrew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 lids lid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 33 partly partly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **learn** | can | Octopuses | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **unscrew** | to-infinitive | Octopuses *not said here* | jar lids | | | | from the inside | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent lid=Patient from inside=Co-Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | octopuses's eight arms | | | | | of nerve cells; full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **touch** | can | each arm | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **taste** | infinitive | each arm *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **act** | infinitive | each arm *not said here* | | | inside'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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:9`. **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. 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