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title: The goblin shark of the deep sea is pink because its blood shows thr… — Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking shark… · tree and pragmatics
description: The goblin shark of the deep sea is pink because its blood shows through its thin skin, and it can fling its jaws forward out of its face to grab prey. Who acts: goblin shark, blood, shark. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and gob
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# Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 12

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The goblin shark of the deep sea is pink because its blood shows through its thin skin, and it can fling its jaws forward out of its face to grab prey.

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**Who acts:** goblin shark, blood, shark · **What happens:** be, show, fling, grab · **To what, where:** thin skin, jaws, face, prey

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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 (goblin shark, blood, 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:12
# text = The goblin shark of the deep sea is pink because its blood shows through its thin skin, and it can fling its jaws forward out of its face to grab prey.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:acl
32	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the goblin shark of the deep sea |  |  |  |  | pink *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | shark's blood |  |  | shark's thin skin |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fling** | can | shark | shark's jaws |  | shark's face |  | forward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent jaw=Theme out face=Destination |
| 4 | **grab** | to-infinitive | shark *not said here* | prey |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |

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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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**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. **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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