--- title: Those teeth sit in rows like a conveyor belt; when one breaks a new… — Sharks · tree and pragmatics description: Those teeth sit in rows like a conveyor belt; when one breaks a new one moves forward, so some sharks lose tens of thousands in a lifetime, and that is why a sandy beach can be full of tiny black shark teeth. Who acts: teeth, one, new one, sharks. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks» of the biology cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/1/) [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/) / [Sharks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/) / 1 # Sharks, sentence 1 Those teeth sit in rows like a conveyor belt; when one breaks a new one moves forward, so some sharks lose tens of thousands in a lifetime, and that is why a sandy beach can be full of tiny black shark teeth. **Who acts:** teeth, one, new one, sharks, that, sandy beach · **What happens:** sit, break, move forward, lose, be · **To what, where:** rows, tens, lifetime This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks» 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 (teeth, one, new one, sharks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:028-sharks.lesson:1 # text = Those teeth sit in rows like a conveyor belt; when one breaks a new one moves forward, so some sharks lose tens of thousands in a lifetime, and that is why a sandy beach can be full of tiny black shark teeth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 028-sharks.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 conveyor conveyor NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 18 forward forward ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lifetime lifetime NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 sandy sandy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 40 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 acl:relcl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 43 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | that teeth | | | rows like a conveyor belt | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | | 2 | **break** | present | one | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **move forward** | present | a new one | | | | | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | present | some sharks | tens of thousands | | a lifetime | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | can | a sandy beach | | | | | of tiny black shark teeth; full *property* | tree rules | 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:028-sharks.lesson:1`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sharks, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/0/) - next →: [Sharks, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/)