--- title: Wobbegongs are flat sharks with patterned skin and frilly flaps arou… — Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking shark… · tree and pragmatics description: Wobbegongs are flat sharks with patterned skin and frilly flaps around the mouth; they lie still on the seabed and snap up fish that come too close. Who acts: Wobbegongs, fish. 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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 (Wobbegongs, fish), 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:8 # text = Wobbegongs are flat sharks with patterned skin and frilly flaps around the mouth; they lie still on the seabed and snap up fish that come too close. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wobbegongs wobbegong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 patterned pattern VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 frilly frilly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 flaps flap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 around around ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 seabed seabed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 snap snap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Wobbegongs | flat sharks | | | | with patterned skin and frilly flaps around the mouth | tree rules | | 2 | **pattern** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lie** | present | Wobbegongs *= wobbegong* | | | the seabed | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seabed=Location | | 4 | **snap up** | present | Wobbegongs *= wobbegong* *not said here* | fish | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fish=Theme | | 5 | **come** | present | fish | | | | | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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