The brain and nerves, sentence 17

An octopus has about 500 million nerve cells, and about two thirds of them are in its eight arms, which can taste and feel and act partly on their own.

Who acts: octopus, eight arms · What happens: have, be, taste, feel, act · To what, where: million nerve cells, eight arms, own

This is a sentence of the lesson «The brain and nerves» 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, eight 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	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	_	13 thirds	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thirds	cc
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 two	advmod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 thirds	nummod
13	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cells	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thirds	nmod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 arms	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 arms	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
19	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 arms	nummod
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thirds	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taste	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 taste	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 taste	aux
24	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 arms	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 feel	cc
26	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 taste	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 act	cc
28	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 taste	conj
29	partly	partly	ADV	_	28 act	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 own	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 own	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 act	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a octopus	million nerve cells and two thirds of thirds			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
2	is	present			octopus's eight arms		tree rules
3	taste	can	octopus's eight arms				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	feel	infinitive	octopus's eight arms not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	act	infinitive	octopus's eight arms not said here		arms'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, 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:068-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:17.

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. 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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