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title: The dwarf lanternshark of the Caribbean deep is one of the smallest… — Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking shark… · tree and pragmatics
description: The dwarf lanternshark of the Caribbean deep is one of the smallest sharks, about 20 centimetres long, shorter than a 30-centimetre school ruler; it glows. Who acts: dwarf lanternshark, shark. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and 
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# Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 15

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The dwarf lanternshark of the Caribbean deep is one of the smallest sharks, about 20 centimetres long, shorter than a 30-centimetre school ruler; it glows.

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**Who acts:** dwarf lanternshark, shark · **What happens:** be, glow · **To what, where:** one

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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 (dwarf lanternshark, 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:15
# text = The dwarf lanternshark of the Caribbean deep is one of the smallest sharks, about 20 centimetres long, shorter than a 30-centimetre school ruler; it glows.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lanternshark	lanternshark	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	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	parataxis	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
23	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound
26	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	glows	glow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30: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 a** | present | the dwarf lanternshark of the Caribbean deep | one |  |  |  | of the smallest sharks | tree rules |
| 2 | **glow** | present | shark |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:15`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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