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title: Off South Africa a great white rushes up from the dark deep water at… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics
description: Off South Africa a great white rushes up from the dark deep water at a seal on the surface and can launch right out of the water. Who acts: great white. 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 dependen
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# Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 4

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Off South Africa a great white rushes up from the dark deep water at a seal on the surface and can launch right out of the water.

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**Who acts:** great white · **What happens:** rush up, launch · **To what, where:** dark deep water, water

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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 (great white), 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:4
# text = Off South Africa a great white rushes up from the dark deep water at a seal on the surface and can launch right out of the water.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	white	white	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	launch	launch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
23	right	right	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush up** | present | a great white |  |  | the dark deep water |  | off South Africa; at a seal on the surface | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off africa=Trajectory |
| 2 | **launch** | can | a great white *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent out water=Destination |

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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:4`.

**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, R6-punct-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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