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title: Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behin… — Sharks · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime. Who acts: Sharks. 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.
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# Sharks, sentence 5

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Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime.

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**Who acts:** Sharks · **What happens:** lose, grow · **To what, where:** teeth, new ones, rows

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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 (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:5
# text = Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime.
# 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): no change
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	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | Sharks | teeth |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | present | Sharks *not said here* | new ones |  | the rows  some tens of thousands in a lifetime |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent one=Product from row=Material |

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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.

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**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:5`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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