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title: The shortfin mako is the fastest shark, reaching about 50 kilometres… — Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans… · tree and pragmatics
description: The shortfin mako is the fastest shark, reaching about 50 kilometres an hour or more in bursts, and it can leap several metres out of the water. Who acts: shortfin mako, mako. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» of the biology course of Mova's primary
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# Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 9

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The shortfin mako is the fastest shark, reaching about 50 kilometres an hour or more in bursts, and it can leap several metres out of the water.

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**Who acts:** shortfin mako, mako · **What happens:** be, reach, leap · **To what, where:** fastest shark, 50 kilometres, bursts, several metres, water

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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 (shortfin mako, mako), 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:9
# text = The shortfin mako is the fastest shark, reaching about 50 kilometres an hour or more in bursts, and it can leap several metres out of the water.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shortfin	shortfin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mako	mako	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bursts	burst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the shortfin mako | the fastest shark |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund | the shortfin mako *not said here* | 50 kilometres  a hour |  | bursts |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme |
| 3 | **leap** | can | mako | several metres |  | the water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location metre=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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