--- title: The megamouth shark was first found in 1976, when one got tangled in… — Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking shark… · tree and pragmatics description: The megamouth shark was first found in 1976, when one got tangled in a ship's sea anchor off Hawaii; it filters tiny shrimp with its huge mouth, and only a few hundred have ever been recorded. Who acts: 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 (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:14 # text = The megamouth shark was first found in 1976, when one got tangled in a ship's sea anchor off Hawaii; it filters tiny shrimp with its huge mouth, and only a few hundred have ever been recorded. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 megamouth megamouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 advmod _ _ 6 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1976 1976 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nsubj _ _ 12 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 tangled tangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 anchor anchor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 off off ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Hawaii Hawaii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 filters filter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 25 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 shrimp shrimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 31 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 40 advmod _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 recorded record VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past · passive | | the megamouth shark | | 1976 | | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **tangle** | past · passive | | one | | a ship's sea anchor | | off Hawaii | tree rules | | 3 | **filter** | present | shark | tiny shrimp | | | | with shark's huge mouth | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent shrimp=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **record** | present · perfect · passive | | a few hundred | | | ever | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:14`. **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 ×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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