--- title: From below, a seal shows as a dark shape against the bright surface,… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics description: From below, a seal shows as a dark shape against the bright surface, and so, sadly, can a surfer on a board. Who acts: seal. 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 o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/) / 5 # Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 5 From below, a seal shows as a dark shape against the bright surface, and so, sadly, can a surfer on a board. **Who acts:** seal · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** surfer 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 (seal), 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:5 # text = From below, a seal shows as a dark shape against the bright surface, and so, sadly, can a surfer on a board. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 below below ADV RB _ 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 against against ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 19 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 surfer surfer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a seal | a surfer on a board | | | | as a dark shape against the bright surface | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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, 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. 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