The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 10

An octopus has three hearts, two for the gills and one for the body, and its blood is blue because it uses copper instead of iron to carry oxygen.

Who acts: octopus, blood · What happens: have, be, use, carry · To what, where: three hearts, copper, oxygen

This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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, blood), 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	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hearts	nummod
5	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gills	punct
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 gills	nummod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 gills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gills	det
10	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hearts	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 body	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 body	nsubj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 body	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 body	det
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hearts	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blue	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 blue	cc
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 blood	nmod:poss
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blue	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 blue	cop
21	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	conj
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 uses	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 uses	nsubj
24	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 blue	advcl
25	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 uses	obj
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	28 iron	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 uses	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 carry	mark
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 uses	advcl
31	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a octopus	three hearts and the two gills and the body		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	is	present	body's blood		blue property	tree rules
3	use	present	blood	copper	instead iron	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copper=Patient
4	carry	to-infinitive	blood not said here	oxygen		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=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:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:10.

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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