--- title: The cookiecutter's belly glows to hide its shape against the light f… — Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking shark… · tree and pragmatics description: The cookiecutter's belly glows to hide its shape against the light from above, except for a dark collar; some scientists think the collar lures big hunters close, but this is still argued. Who acts: belly, scientists, collar. 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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 (belly, scientists, collar), 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:11 # text = The cookiecutter's belly glows to hide its shape against the light from above, except for a dark collar; some scientists think the collar lures big hunters close, but this is still argued. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cookiecutter cookiecutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 glows glow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 against against ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 above above ADV RB _ 7 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 except except ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lures lure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 28 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 close close ADV RB _ 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 still still ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glow** | present | the cookiecutter's belly | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | the cookiecutter's belly *not said here* | belly's shape | | | | against the light; except a dark collar | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shape=Patient from above=Beneficiary | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **lure** | present | the collar | big hunters | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Patient | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | this | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | 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:11`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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