--- title: Many sharks are endangered because they grow slowly and have few you… — Sharks · tree and pragmatics description: Many sharks are endangered because they grow slowly and have few young, and they keep oceans healthy by eating sick fish. Who acts: Many sharks, purses. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/18/) [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/) / 18 # Sharks, sentence 18 Many sharks are endangered because they grow slowly and have few young, and they keep oceans healthy by eating sick fish. **Who acts:** Many sharks, purses · **What happens:** be, grow, have, keep, eat · **To what, where:** few young, oceans, sick fish 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 (Many sharks, purses), 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:18 # text = Many sharks are endangered because they grow slowly and have few young, and they keep oceans healthy by eating sick fish. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:aux:pass 4 endangered endangered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 young young NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 by by SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 advcl _ _ 21 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Many sharks | | | | | endangered *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | purses *= purse* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | purses *= purse* *not said here* | few young | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | present | purses *= purse* | oceans | | | | healthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | purses *= purse* *not said here* | sick fish | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | 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:18`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sharks, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/17/) - next →: [Crocodiles and alligators, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/)