--- title: Look closely and you find surprises: shark skin made of tiny teeth,… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics description: Look closely and you find surprises: shark skin made of tiny teeth, a shark egg case called a mermaid's purse, and a sawfish whose saw can feel electricity. Who acts: you, shark egg case, saw. 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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 (you, shark egg case, saw), 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:3 # text = Look closely and you find surprises: shark skin made of tiny teeth, a shark egg case called a mermaid's purse, and a sawfish whose saw can feel electricity. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 closely closely ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 surprises surprise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod 10 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 21 mermaid mermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sawfish sawfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 saw saw NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | closely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **find** | present | you | surprises | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Topic | | 3 | **make** | participle | | shark skin and a shark egg case *not said here* | | | | of tiny teeth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **call** | participle | a shark egg case *not said here* | a mermaid's purse and a sawfish | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent purse=Recipient | | 5 | **feel** | can | saw | electricity | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | 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. 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