--- title: A shark has several rows of teeth that move forward like a conveyor… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, te… · tree and pragmatics description: A shark has several rows of teeth that move forward like a conveyor belt, and it can lose and regrow thousands of teeth in its life, so fossil shark teeth are common on some beaches. Who acts: shark, several rows, shark teeth. 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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, several rows, shark teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:041-counting-animals.lesson:10 # text = A shark has several rows of teeth that move forward like a conveyor belt, and it can lose and regrow thousands of teeth in its life, so fossil shark teeth are common on some beaches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 041-counting-animals.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl:relcl 10 forward forward ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 conveyor conveyor NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 regrow regrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 30 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 37 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a shark | several rows of teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient | | 2 | **move forward** | present | several rows of teeth | | | | | like a conveyor belt; forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | can | shark | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **regrow** | infinitive | shark *not said here* | thousands of teeth | | shark's life | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | shark teeth | | | some beaches | | common *property* | tree rules | 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. 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