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title: Sharks can smell tiny amounts of blood and other substances in water… — Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharks can smell tiny amounts of blood and other substances in water, but the idea that one drop makes them go crazy at once is exaggerated; their nose is only for smelling, not breathing. Who acts: Sharks, one drop, nose. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and
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# Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 5

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Sharks can smell tiny amounts of blood and other substances in water, but the idea that one drop makes them go crazy at once is exaggerated; their nose is only for smelling, not breathing.

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**Who acts:** Sharks, one drop, nose · **What happens:** smell, make, go, exaggerate, be, not breathe · **To what, where:** tiny amounts, sharks, idea, blood

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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, one drop, nose), 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:5
# text = Sharks can smell tiny amounts of blood and other substances in water, but the idea that one drop makes them go crazy at once is exaggerated; their nose is only for smelling, not breathing.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	substances	substance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	advmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | can | Sharks | tiny amounts of blood and other substances in water |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer amount=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | present | one drop | sharks *= shark* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | sharks *= shark* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | crazy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **exaggerate** | present · passive |  | the idea |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | present | sharks's nose |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **smell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **breathe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **amount** |  |  | blood and other substances in water |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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): R6-punct-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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