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title: Hammerhead sharks have wide heads with an eye at each end, and they… — Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hammerhead sharks have wide heads with an eye at each end, and they swing their heads from side to side as they search; some gather in big schools near islands. Who acts: Hammerhead sharks, heads, some. A sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtle
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# Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 13

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Hammerhead sharks have wide heads with an eye at each end, and they swing their heads from side to side as they search; some gather in big schools near islands.

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**Who acts:** Hammerhead sharks, heads, some · **What happens:** have, swing, search, gather · **To what, where:** wide heads, heads, side, big schools

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» 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 (Hammerhead sharks, heads, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson:13
# text = Hammerhead sharks have wide heads with an eye at each end, and they swing their heads from side to side as they search; some gather in big schools near islands.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Hammerhead	hammerhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	swing	swing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	search	search	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
27	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod
31	near	near	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **have** | present | Hammerhead sharks | wide heads |  |  |  | with a eye at each end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **swing** | present | heads *= head* | heads's heads |  | side to side |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme from side=Trajectory |
| 3 | **search** | present | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gather** | present | some |  |  | big schools near islands |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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