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title: Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while peop… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while people kill tens of millions of sharks every year. Who acts: Sharks, people. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 9

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Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while people kill tens of millions of sharks every year.

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**Who acts:** Sharks, people · **What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** ten people, tens

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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 (Sharks, people), 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:9
# text = Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while people kill tens of millions of sharks every year.
# 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
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	worldwide	worldwide	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
15	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present | Sharks | ten people |  |  | year | worldwide *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | present | people | tens of millions of sharks |  |  | year |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=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:9`.

**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. **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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