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title: Behind each tooth in the jaw wait rows of spares that move forward l… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind each tooth in the jaw wait rows of spares that move forward like a conveyor belt, so a shark can lose and replace thousands of teeth in its life. Who acts: rows, spares, shark. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 3

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Behind each tooth in the jaw wait rows of spares that move forward like a conveyor belt, so a shark can lose and replace thousands of teeth in its life.

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**Who acts:** rows, spares, shark · **What happens:** wait, move forward, lose, replace · **To what, where:** tooth, thousands, life

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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 (rows, spares, shark), 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:3
# text = Behind each tooth in the jaw wait rows of spares that move forward like a conveyor belt, so a shark can lose and replace thousands of teeth in its life.
# 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
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
7	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spares	spare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	conveyor	conveyor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **wait** | present | rows of spares |  |  | each tooth in the jaw |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind tooth=Location |
| 2 | **move forward** | present | spares |  |  |  |  | like a conveyor belt; forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | can | a shark |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **replace** | infinitive | a shark *not said here* | thousands of teeth |  | tooth's life |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Co-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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**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:3`.

**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. **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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