--- title: The whale shark is the largest fish in the world, about as long as a… — Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas,… · tree and pragmatics description: The whale shark is the largest fish in the world, about as long as a bus; it eats tiny drifting food, and each one has a pattern of spots as unique as a fingerprint. Who acts: whale shark, shark, tiny food, one. A sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/4/) [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/) / [Reef giants and wanderers: whale shark…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/) / 4 # Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 4 The whale shark is the largest fish in the world, about as long as a bus; it eats tiny drifting food, and each one has a pattern of spots as unique as a fingerprint. **Who acts:** whale shark, shark, tiny food, one, spots · **What happens:** be, eat, drift, have, pattern · **To what, where:** largest fish, world, tiny food, pattern 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 (whale shark, shark, tiny food, one), 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:4 # text = The whale shark is the largest fish in the world, about as long as a bus; it eats tiny drifting food, and each one has a pattern of spots as unique as a fingerprint. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 shark shark 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 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 21 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 drifting drift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 acl _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 unique unique ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:acl:relcl 35 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fingerprint fingerprint NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is a** | present | the whale shark | the largest fish | | the world | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | shark | tiny food | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 3 | **drift** | gerund | tiny food *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | each one | a pattern of spots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient | | 5 | **pattern** | | spots | | | | | | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson:4`. **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): R7-rel-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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