--- title: Great whites usually hunt seals, fish and dead whales; most bites on… — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and ham… · tree and pragmatics description: Great whites usually hunt seals, fish and dead whales; most bites on people are thought to be mistakes or test bites, and often the shark swims away. Who acts: Great whites, shark. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» of the biology course of Mova's prim --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 9 Great whites usually hunt seals, fish and dead whales; most bites on people are thought to be mistakes or test bites, and often the shark swims away. **Who acts:** Great whites, shark · **What happens:** hunt, think, be, swim away · **To what, where:** seals, most bites, mistakes 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 whites, 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:9 # text = Great whites usually hunt seals, fish and dead whales; most bites on people are thought to be mistakes or test bites, and often the shark swims away. # 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 ×2 1 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 whites white NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 xcomp _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present | Great whites | seals and fish and dead whales | | | | usually *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive | | most bites on people | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | mistakes or test bites | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **swim away** | present | the shark | | | | | away, often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead.lesson:9`. **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 ×2. **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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