--- title: The whale shark is the biggest fish of all, up to about 18 metres lo… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics description: The whale shark is the biggest fish of all, up to about 18 metres long, and it filters plankton and small fish; it is a shark, not a whale, because it breathes with gills and has a cartilage skeleton. Who acts: whale shark, 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 (whale shark, 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:18 # text = The whale shark is the biggest fish of all, up to about 18 metres long, and it filters plankton and small fish; it is a shark, not a whale, because it breathes with gills and has a cartilage skeleton. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 up up ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 filters filter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 plankton plankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 cartilage cartilage NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the whale shark | the biggest fish | | | | of all; up 18 metres | tree rules | | 2 | **filter** | present | water | plankton and small fish | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent plankton=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | water | a shark and a whale | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **breathe** | present | water | | | | | with gills | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | water *not said here* | a cartilage skeleton | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Patient | 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:18`. **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): 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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