Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 2

About two thirds of its nerve cells are in its arms, so each arm can feel, taste and make simple decisions on its own while it explores a different rock.

Who acts: two thirds, arm, beak · What happens: be, feel, taste, make, explore · To what, where: arms, simple decisions, own, different rock

This is a sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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 (two thirds, arm, beak), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thirds	nummod
3	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 arms	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 cells	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cells	nmod:poss
6	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cells	compound
7	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thirds	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 arms	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 arms	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arms	nmod:poss
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feel	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 feel	advmod
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 arm	det
15	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feel	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 feel	aux
17	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 arms	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taste	punct
19	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 feel	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 feel	conj
22	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 decisions	amod
23	decisions	decision	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 make	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 own	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 own	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 make	obl
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 explores	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 explores	nsubj
29	explores	explore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 make	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 rock	det
31	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rock	amod
32	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 explores	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 arms	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	present	two thirds of beak's nerve cells		beak's arms	tree rules
2	feel	can	each arm			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	taste	infinitive	each arm not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	make	infinitive	each arm not said here	simple decisions	beak's own	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset decision=Product
5	explore	present	beak	a different rock		vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent rock=Location

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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.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): 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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