--- title: Some walk on their fins across rock pools, some lie on the seabed lo… — Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking shark… · tree and pragmatics description: Some walk on their fins across rock pools, some lie on the seabed looking like a frilly carpet, and one tiny shark takes round bites out of whales as if with a cookie cutter. Who acts: Some, one tiny 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 (Some, one tiny 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:2 # text = Some walk on their fins across rock pools, some lie on the seabed looking like a frilly carpet, and one tiny shark takes round bites out of whales as if with a cookie cutter. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 fins fin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 across across ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 pools pool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 11 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 seabed seabed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 15 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 advcl _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 frilly frilly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 carpet carpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 23 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 cookie cookie NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 cutter cutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | Some | | | kinds's fins | | across rock pools | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fin=Trajectory | | 2 | **lie** | present | some | | | the seabed | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seabed=Location | | 3 | **look** | gerund | some *not said here* | | | | | like a frilly carpet | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **take** | present | one tiny shark | round bites | | | | out whales | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent bite=Theme out whale=Initial\_Location | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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