--- title: The cookiecutter shark is only about 50 centimetres long; it latches… — Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking shark… · tree and pragmatics description: The cookiecutter shark is only about 50 centimetres long; it latches on with sucking lips and spins to cut a round plug of flesh out of whales, dolphins, seals and big fish. Who acts: cookiecutter shark, 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 (cookiecutter shark, shark), 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:10 # text = The cookiecutter shark is only about 50 centimetres long; it latches on with sucking lips and spins to cut a round plug of flesh out of whales, dolphins, seals and big fish. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cookiecutter cookiecutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 latches latch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 on on ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 sucking suck VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 amod _ _ 16 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 plug plug NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **is** | present | the cookiecutter shark | | | | | 50 centimetres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **latch on** | present | shark | | | | | with sucking lips | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **suck** | gerund | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spin** | present | shark *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cut** | to-infinitive | shark *not said here* | a round plug of flesh | | | | out whales and dolphins and seals and big fish | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plug=Product | 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:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:10`. **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): R6-punct-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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