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title: Scalloped hammerheads gather in big schools by day near underwater m… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scalloped hammerheads gather in big schools by day near underwater mountains, like off the Galápagos, and split up at night to hunt alone; many hammerheads are endangered by fishing, especially for their fins. Who acts: Scalloped hammerheads, fishing. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind: great 
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# Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 19

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Scalloped hammerheads gather in big schools by day near underwater mountains, like off the Galápagos, and split up at night to hunt alone; many hammerheads are endangered by fishing, especially for their fins.

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**Who acts:** Scalloped hammerheads, fishing · **What happens:** gather, split up, hunt, endanger · **To what, where:** big schools, many hammerheads

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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 (Scalloped hammerheads, fishing), 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:19
# text = Scalloped hammerheads gather in big schools by day near underwater mountains, like off the Galápagos, and split up at night to hunt alone; many hammerheads are endangered by fishing, especially for their fins.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Scalloped	scallop	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hammerheads	hammerhead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	underwater	underwater	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Galápagos	Galápagos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hammerheads	hammerhead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	endangered	endanger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **gather** | present | Scalloped hammerheads |  |  | big schools | day | near underwater mountains; like the Galápagos | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **split up** | past | Scalloped hammerheads *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Scalloped hammerheads *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **endanger** | present · passive | fishing | many hammerheads |  |  |  | for Sharks's fins | tree rules |

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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 ×2, 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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