--- title: Great white sharks, the sharks of Jaws, hunt fish and seals and are… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics description: Great white sharks, the sharks of Jaws, hunt fish and seals and are rarely kept in aquariums because they swim huge distances and many stopped eating or died in tanks. Who acts: sharks, many. 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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 (sharks, many), 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:8 # text = Great white sharks, the sharks of Jaws, hunt fish and seals and are rarely kept in aquariums because they swim huge distances and many stopped eating or died in tanks. # 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): no change 1 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Jaws Jaws PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 aquariums aquarium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 23 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 nsubj _ _ 27 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present | | fish and seals | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | present · passive | | | | aquariums | | rarely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in aquarium=Location | | 3 | **swim** | present | sharks *= shark* | huge distances | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | | 4 | **stop** | past | many | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | many *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **die** | past | many *not said here* | | | | | in tanks | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tank=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:8`. **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): no change. **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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