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title: There are over 500 kinds, and many are small, flat, glowing or very… — Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking shark… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are over 500 kinds, and many are small, flat, glowing or very strange. Who acts: 500 kinds, many. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 1

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There are over 500 kinds, and many are small, flat, glowing or very strange.

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**Who acts:** 500 kinds, many · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» 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 (500 kinds, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:1
# text = There are over 500 kinds, and many are small, flat, glowing or very strange.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	glowing	glow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **does** | present | 500 kinds |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | many |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:1`.

**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): 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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