--- title: Shark skin is covered in tiny tooth-like scales called denticles, wh… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics description: Shark skin is covered in tiny tooth-like scales called denticles, which feel smooth one way and like sandpaper the other and help water slip past. Who acts: tiny like scales, water. 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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 (tiny like scales, water), 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:17 # text = Shark skin is covered in tiny tooth-like scales called denticles, which feel smooth one way and like sandpaper the other and help water slip past. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 7 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 denticles denticle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl 16 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sandpaper sandpaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 slip slip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 past past ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **cover** | present · passive | | Shark skin | | | | in tiny like scales | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in scale=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | tiny like scales *not said here* | denticles | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feel** | present | tiny like scales | one way and sandpaper | | | | smooth *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **help** | present | tiny like scales *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **slip past** | infinitive | water | | | | | past *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:17`. **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 ×2, 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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