--- title: Even Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, later spent years working to pr… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics description: Even Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, later spent years working to protect them. Who acts: Peter, years. 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. --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 7 Even Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, later spent years working to protect them. **Who acts:** Peter, years · **What happens:** write, spend, work, protect · **To what, where:** Jaws, bites 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 (Peter, years), 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:7 # text = Even Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, later spent years working to protect them. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Even even ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 Benchley Benchley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 Jaws Jaws PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 10 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | Peter | Jaws | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaws=Theme | | 2 | **spend** | past | Peter | | | | year | late *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **work** | gerund | years *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive | years *not said here* | bites *= bite* | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | 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:7`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. 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