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title: In Jaws one shark terrorises a whole town, but real shark attacks ar… — The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark · tree and pragmatics
description: In Jaws one shark terrorises a whole town, but real shark attacks are very rare, most of the 500 or so kinds of shark are smaller than a person, and people catch tens of millions of sharks every year. Who acts: one shark, real shark attacks, most, people. A sentence of the lesson «The ocean: open se
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# The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark, sentence 3

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In Jaws one shark terrorises a whole town, but real shark attacks are very rare, most of the 500 or so kinds of shark are smaller than a person, and people catch tens of millions of sharks every year.

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**Who acts:** one shark, real shark attacks, most, people · **What happens:** terrorise, be, catch · **To what, where:** whole town, Jaws, tens

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark» 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 (one shark, real shark attacks, most, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:008-the-ocean.lesson:3
# text = In Jaws one shark terrorises a whole town, but real shark attacks are very rare, most of the 500 or so kinds of shark are smaller than a person, and people catch tens of millions of sharks every year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 008-the-ocean.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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Jaws	Jaws	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	terrorises	terrorise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
21	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
36	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
42	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **terrorise** | present | one shark | a whole town |  | Jaws |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | real shark attacks |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | most of 500 or the kinds of shark |  |  |  |  | than a person; small *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **catch** | present | people | tens of millions of sharks |  |  | year |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=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:008-the-ocean.lesson:3`.

**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. **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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