--- title: A great white has about 300 teeth in rows, triangular with saw edges… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics description: A great white has about 300 teeth in rows, triangular with saw edges for slicing seal fat, and new teeth move forward like a conveyor belt; a shark can lose and replace thousands of teeth in its life. Who acts: great white, saw edges, new teeth, shark. 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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, saw edges, new teeth, 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:8 # text = A great white has about 300 teeth in rows, triangular with saw edges for slicing seal fat, and new teeth move forward like a conveyor belt; 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 white white NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 triangular triangular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 saw saw NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 slicing slice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 17 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 24 forward forward ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 conveyor conveyor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 replace replace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 36 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **have** | present | a great white | 300 teeth | | rows | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 2 | **slice** | gerund | saw edges *not said here* | seal fat | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient | | 3 | **move forward** | present | new teeth | | | | | like a conveyor belt; forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | can | a shark | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **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 | 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. 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