--- title: Sharks lose and replace teeth all their lives, thousands of them, so… — Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and pr… · tree and pragmatics description: Sharks lose and replace teeth all their lives, thousands of them, so old teeth pile up on the sea floor, and that is why you can find a black fossil shark tooth on a beach. Who acts: Sharks, old teeth, that, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sharks, old teeth, that, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea.lesson:2 # text = Sharks lose and replace teeth all their lives, thousands of them, so old teeth pile up on the sea floor, and that is why you can find a black fossil shark tooth on a beach. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea.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, 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 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 replace replace 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 5 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pile pile VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nmod 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | present | Sharks | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **replace** | present | Sharks *not said here* | teeth and teeth's lives and thousands of teeth | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tooth=Co-Theme | | 3 | **pile up** | present | old teeth | | | the sea floor | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on floor=Destination | | 4 | **is** | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | can | you | a black shark tooth | | a beach | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic | 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:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea.lesson:2`. **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, 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. 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