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title: Hold a great white tooth in your hand: a triangle with saw edges. — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hold a great white tooth in your hand: a triangle with saw edges. Who acts: you. 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.
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# Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 2

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Hold a great white tooth in your hand: a triangle with saw edges.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** great white tooth, hand

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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 (you), 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:2
# text = Hold a great white tooth in your hand: a triangle with saw edges.
# 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): no change
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	triangle	triangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | a great white tooth |  | your hand and a triangle with saw edges |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme in hand=Location |

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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:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead.lesson:2`.

**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): no change. **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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