--- title: Films like Jaws show sharks hunting people; in truth, sharks kill on… — Sharks · tree and pragmatics description: Films like Jaws show sharks hunting people; in truth, sharks kill only a handful of people a year, usually by mistaking a swimmer for a seal, while people kill around 100 million sharks a year. Who acts: Films, sharks, people. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks» of the biology course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/3/) [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/) / 3 # Sharks, sentence 3 Films like Jaws show sharks hunting people; in truth, sharks kill only a handful of people a year, usually by mistaking a swimmer for a seal, while people kill around 100 million sharks a year. **Who acts:** Films, sharks, people · **What happens:** show, hunt, kill, mistake · **To what, where:** sharks, people, handful, truth, swimmer, million sharks 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 (Films, sharks, people), 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:3 # text = Films like Jaws show sharks hunting people; in truth, sharks kill only a handful of people a year, usually by mistaking a swimmer for a seal, while people kill around 100 million sharks a year. # 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 1 Films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Jaws Jaws PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 by by SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 mistaking mistake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 advcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 swimmer swimmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 around around ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 compound _ _ 36 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:unmarked _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Films like Jaws | sharks | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shark=Recipient | | 2 | **hunt** | gerund | sharks *not said here* | people | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **kill** | present | sharks | a handful of people | | truth | year | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | | 4 | **mistake** | gerund | sharks *not said here* | a swimmer | | | | for a seal; usually *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **kill** | present | people | million sharks a year | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Theme | 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:3`. **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. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/2/) - next →: [Sharks, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/)