Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver, sentence 2

Its brain is spread out: one main brain in the head, and big bundles of nerve cells in each of its eight arms, which taste and feel everything they touch.

Who acts: eight arms, arms · What happens: spread out, taste, feel, touch · To what, where: brain, everything

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» 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 (eight arms, arms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brain	nmod:poss
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux:pass
4	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 spread	compound:prt
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 brain	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 brain	nummod
8	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brain	amod
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 head	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brain	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bundles	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bundles	cc
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bundles	amod
16	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brain	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 cells	case
18	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cells	compound
19	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bundles	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 each	case
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 bundles	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 arms	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 arms	nmod:poss
24	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 arms	nummod
25	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 each	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 taste	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 taste	nsubj
28	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 arms	acl:relcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 feel	cc
30	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 taste	conj
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 feel	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 touch	nsubj
33	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 everything	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	spread out	present · passive		octopus's brain	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	taste	present	octopus's eight arms		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	feel	present	octopus's eight arms not said here	everything	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
4	touch	present	arms = arm		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, 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:234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver.lesson:2.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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