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title: In a big aquarium you can walk through a tunnel of thick clear acryl… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics
description: In a big aquarium you can walk through a tunnel of thick clear acrylic, so the sea is all around you and sharks glide over your head. Who acts: you, sea, sharks. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 0

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In a big aquarium you can walk through a tunnel of thick clear acrylic, so the sea is all around you and sharks glide over your head.

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**Who acts:** you, sea, sharks · **What happens:** walk, be, glide · **To what, where:** big aquarium, head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays» 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 (you, sea, sharks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:091-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays.lesson:0
# text = In a big aquarium you can walk through a tunnel of thick clear acrylic, so the sea is all around you and sharks glide over your head.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 091-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays.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	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod
14	acrylic	acrylic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	glide	glide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **walk** | can | you |  |  | a big aquarium |  | through a tunnel of thick clear acrylic | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in aquarium=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | the sea |  |  |  |  | around you; all *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **glide** | present | sharks |  |  | your head |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Trajectory |

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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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**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.

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