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title: The great white hunts seals, the tiger shark eats almost anything, t… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics
description: The great white hunts seals, the tiger shark eats almost anything, the bull shark swims up rivers, and the hammerhead sweeps the sand for hidden stingrays. Who acts: tiger shark, bull shark, hammerhead. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» of the biology
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# Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 1

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The great white hunts seals, the tiger shark eats almost anything, the bull shark swims up rivers, and the hammerhead sweeps the sand for hidden stingrays.

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**Who acts:** tiger shark, bull shark, hammerhead · **What happens:** hunt, eat, swim, sweep · **To what, where:** seals, anything, rivers, sand

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» 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 (tiger shark, bull shark, hammerhead), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead.lesson:1
# text = The great white hunts seals, the tiger shark eats almost anything, the bull shark swims up rivers, and the hammerhead sweeps the sand for hidden stingrays.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead.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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	hunts	hunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
16	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	swims	swim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hammerhead	hammerhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sweeps	sweep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	stingrays	stingray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **hunt** | present |  | seals |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the tiger shark | anything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 3 | **swim** | present | the bull shark |  |  | rivers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up river=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sweep** | present | the hammerhead | the sand |  |  |  | for hidden stingrays | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sand=Location for stingray=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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**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 ×2. **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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