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title: Films like Jaws made people fear sharks, but the true numbers run th… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics
description: Films like Jaws made people fear sharks, but the true numbers run the other way: people kill far more sharks than sharks ever kill people. Who acts: Films, people, true numbers, sharks. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch
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# The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 4

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Films like Jaws made people fear sharks, but the true numbers run the other way: people kill far more sharks than sharks ever kill people.

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**Who acts:** Films, people, true numbers, sharks · **What happens:** make, fear, run, kill · **To what, where:** sharks, other way, more sharks, people

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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 (Films, people, true numbers, 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:4
# text = Films like Jaws made people fear sharks, but the true numbers run the other way: people kill far more sharks than sharks ever kill people.
# 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 ×2
1	Films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
24	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Films like Jaws |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fear** | infinitive | people | sharks |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shark=Stimulus |
| 3 | **run** | present | the true numbers | the other way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** | present | people | more sharks |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Theme |
| 5 | **kill** | present | sharks | people |  |  | ever |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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**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:4`.

**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 ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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