--- title: Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, later spent years working to protect… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics description: Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, later spent years working to protect sharks. Who acts: Peter. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» 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/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/12/) [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 by kind: great white, tiger, bu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/) / 12 # Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 12 Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, later spent years working to protect sharks. **Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** write, spend, work, protect · **To what, where:** Jaws, sharks 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 (Peter), 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:12 # text = Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, later spent years working to protect sharks. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 Benchley Benchley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 Jaws Jaws PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 9 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp 14 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | Peter | Jaws | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaws=Theme | | 2 | **spend** | past | Peter | | | | year | late *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **work** | gerund | Peter *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | sharks | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Beneficiary | 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:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead.lesson:12`. **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. 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