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title: Even so, all sharks together make only about 70 unprovoked bites on… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics
description: Even so, all sharks together make only about 70 unprovoked bites on people a year worldwide (unprovoked means nobody had poked, caught or fed the shark), and many sharks are now in danger from fishing. Who acts: sharks, unprovoked, nobody, many sharks. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind: great
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# Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 6

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Even so, all sharks together make only about 70 unprovoked bites on people a year worldwide (unprovoked means nobody had poked, caught or fed the shark), and many sharks are now in danger from fishing.

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**Who acts:** sharks, unprovoked, nobody, many sharks · **What happens:** make, mean, poke, catch, feed, be · **To what, where:** 70 unprovoked bites, shark, danger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sharks, unprovoked, nobody, many sharks), 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:6
# text = Even so, all sharks together make only about 70 unprovoked bites on people a year worldwide (unprovoked means nobody had poked, caught or fed the shark), and many sharks are now in danger from fishing.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	unprovoked	unprovoked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	worldwide	worldwide	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
19	unprovoked	unprovoked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	poked	poke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
27	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **make** | present | all sharks | 70 unprovoked bites |  |  |  | on people; worldwide *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bite=Product |
| 2 | **mean** | present | unprovoked |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **poke** | past · perfect | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **catch** | participle | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feed** | participle | nobody *not said here* | the shark |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | present | many sharks |  |  | danger | now | from fishing | 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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**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:6`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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