--- title: The sharks swim past the smaller fish without snapping at them, beca… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics description: The sharks swim past the smaller fish without snapping at them, because the keepers feed them full meals from a long pole and a full shark is not hunting. Who acts: sharks, smaller fish, keepers, full 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 (sharks, smaller fish, keepers, full shark), 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:1 # text = The sharks swim past the smaller fish without snapping at them, because the keepers feed them full meals from a long pole and a full shark is not hunting. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 past past ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 without without SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 snapping snap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | present | the sharks | | | | | past the smaller fish | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past fish=Trajectory | | 2 | **snap** | gerund | the smaller fish *not said here* | | | | | at sharks *= shark* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at they=Location | | 3 | **feed** | present | the keepers | full meals | sharks *= shark* | a long pole | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient meal=Theme | | 4 | **not** **hunt** | present · progressive | a full shark | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:091-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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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