--- title: Tiger sharks eat almost anything, from fish, turtles, sea snakes and… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics description: Tiger sharks eat almost anything, from fish, turtles, sea snakes and birds to rubbish like tyres and number plates, reported; their notched teeth cut turtle shells, and young ones have stripes that fade with age. Who acts: Tiger sharks, notched teeth, young ones, stripes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger sharks, notched teeth, young ones, stripes), 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:14 # text = Tiger sharks eat almost anything, from fish, turtles, sea snakes and birds to rubbish like tyres and number plates, reported; their notched teeth cut turtle shells, and young ones have stripes that fade with age. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 17 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 notched notch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 fade fade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:nmod 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Tiger sharks | anything | | | | from fish and turtles and sea snakes and birds to rubbish like tyres and number plates | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 2 | **report** | participle | | tyres and number plates *not said here* | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **notch** | participle | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **cut** | present | Sharks's notched teeth | turtle shells | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shell=Product | | 5 | **have** | present | young ones | stripes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient | | 6 | **fade** | present | stripes | | | | with age | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with age=Instrument | 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:14`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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