--- title: Sharks very rarely bite people; people are not their normal food, an… — Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans… · tree and pragmatics description: Sharks very rarely bite people; people are not their normal food, and each year people kill many millions of sharks while sharks kill only a handful of people. Who acts: Sharks, people. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» of the biology course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/) / 10 # Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 10 Sharks very rarely bite people; people are not their normal food, and each year people kill many millions of sharks while sharks kill only a handful of people. **Who acts:** Sharks, people · **What happens:** bite, not be, kill · **To what, where:** people, normal food, many millions, handful This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» 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 (Sharks, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.lesson:10 # text = Sharks very rarely bite people; people are not their normal food, and each year people kill many millions of sharks while sharks kill only a handful of people. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3 1 Sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 3 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | present | Sharks | people | | | | rarely *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | people | sharks's normal food | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **kill** | present | people | many millions of sharks | | | year | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme | | 4 | **kill** | present | sharks | a handful of people | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.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): R5-strong ×3. **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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