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title: Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones in rows behind, so… — Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones in rows behind, so one shark can use thousands of teeth in its life, and shark teeth are common fossils. Who acts: Sharks, one shark, shark teeth. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» of the biology cour
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# Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 7

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Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones in rows behind, so one shark can use thousands of teeth in its life, and shark teeth are common fossils.

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**Who acts:** Sharks, one shark, shark teeth · **What happens:** lose, grow, use, be · **To what, where:** teeth, new ones, rows, thousands, life, common fossils

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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 shark, shark teeth), 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:7
# text = Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones in rows behind, so one shark can use thousands of teeth in its life, and shark teeth are common fossils.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
13	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | Sharks | teeth |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | present | Sharks *not said here* | new ones |  | rows |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | can | one shark | thousands of teeth |  | water's life |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | shark teeth | common fossils |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:7`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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