--- title: A shark's skeleton is made of cartilage, which is lighter and bendie… — Sharks · tree and pragmatics description: A shark's skeleton is made of cartilage, which is lighter and bendier than bone, so shark fossils are mostly teeth. Who acts: cartilage, shark fossils. 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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Sharks, sentence 6 A shark's skeleton is made of cartilage, which is lighter and bendier than bone, so shark fossils are mostly teeth. **Who acts:** cartilage, shark fossils · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** skeleton, teeth 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 (cartilage, shark fossils), 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:6 # text = A shark's skeleton is made of cartilage, which is lighter and bendier than bone, so shark fossils are mostly 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 cartilage cartilage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 bendier bendy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | a shark's skeleton | | | | of cartilage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **is** | present | cartilage | | | | | than bone; light *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | cartilage *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | shark fossils | teeth | | | | mostly *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:6`. **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. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/5/) - next →: [Sharks, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/)