Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 8

An octopus has about 500 million nerve cells, about two thirds of them in its arms, and its suckers can taste what they touch.

Who acts: octopus, suckers, Octopuses · What happens: have, taste, touch · To what, where: million nerve cells

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 (octopus, suckers, Octopuses), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 octopus	det
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 million	advmod
5	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 million	compound
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 cells	nummod
7	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	compound
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thirds	punct
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 two	advmod
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 thirds	nummod
12	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cells	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thirds	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 arms	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arms	nmod:poss
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thirds	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 taste	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 taste	cc
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 suckers	nmod:poss
21	suckers	sucker	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 taste	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 taste	aux
23	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 has	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 touch	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 touch	nsubj
26	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 taste	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	a octopus	million nerve cells	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
2	taste	can	blood's suckers		vn see-30.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	touch	present	Octopuses = octopus		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Co-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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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