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title: Sharks don't hunt humans; bites are very rare and often a mistake, a… — Sharks · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharks don't hunt humans; bites are very rare and often a mistake, and people kill around 100 million sharks a year. Who acts: Sharks, bites, people. 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 9

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Sharks don't hunt humans; bites are very rare and often a mistake, and people kill around 100 million sharks a year.

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**Who acts:** Sharks, bites, people · **What happens:** not hunt, be, kill · **To what, where:** humans, million sharks

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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, bites, 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:9
# text = Sharks don't hunt humans; bites are very rare and often a mistake, and 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	Sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
19	around	around	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hunt** | present · do-support | Sharks | humans |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent human=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | bites |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | present | people | million sharks |  |  | year |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=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:9`.

**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/).

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