--- title: The sand tiger shark looks fierce with its long jagged teeth, but it… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics description: The sand tiger shark looks fierce with its long jagged teeth, but it is slow and calm; the thin teeth are for gripping slippery fish, and it gulps air at the surface to help it float. Who acts: tiger shark, pole, thin teeth. 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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 (tiger shark, pole, thin teeth), 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:7 # text = The sand tiger shark looks fierce with its long jagged teeth, but it is slow and calm; the thin teeth are for gripping slippery fish, and it gulps air at the surface to help it float. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 jagged jagged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 gripping grip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 26 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 gulps gulp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 32 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **look** | present | the tiger shark | | | | | with pole's long jagged teeth; fierce *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | pole | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | pole *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grip** | present · progressive | the thin teeth | slippery fish | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Experiencer | | 5 | **gulp** | present | pole | air | | the surface | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | | 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | pole *not said here* | pole | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 7 | **float** | infinitive | pole *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:091-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays.lesson:7`. **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. **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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