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title: Great white sharks often attack seals from below and can burst right… — Sharks · tree and pragmatics
description: Great white sharks often attack seals from below and can burst right out of the water; they grow to about 6 metres and can live over 70 years. Who acts: Great white sharks, fossils. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Sharks, sentence 7

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Great white sharks often attack seals from below and can burst right out of the water; they grow to about 6 metres and can live over 70 years.

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**Who acts:** Great white sharks, fossils · **What happens:** attack, burst, grow, live · **To what, where:** seals, water

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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 (Great white sharks, 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:7
# text = Great white sharks often attack seals from below and can burst right out of the water; they grow to about 6 metres and can live over 70 years.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
6	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	below	below	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | present | Great white sharks | seals |  |  |  | often *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Patient |
| 2 | **burst** | can | Great white sharks *not said here* |  |  | the water |  | right *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | present | fossils *= fossil* |  |  |  |  | to 6 metres | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | can | fossils *= fossil* *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:7`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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