--- title: Sharks rarely attack people, because we are not their normal food; s… — Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo · tree and pragmatics description: Sharks rarely attack people, because we are not their normal food; seagulls grab food only because people taught them to by feeding them. Who acts: Sharks, we, seagulls, people. 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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, we, seagulls, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo.lesson:4 # text = Sharks rarely attack people, because we are not their normal food; seagulls grab food only because people taught them to by feeding them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo.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 3 nsubj _ _ 2 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 attack attack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 seagulls seagull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 grab grab VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:iobj 22 to to PART TO _ 20 xcomp _ _ 23 by by SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **attack** | present | Sharks | people | | | | rarely *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | we | Sharks's normal food | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grab** | present | seagulls | food | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | people | | seagulls *= seagull* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 5 | **feed** | gerund | people *not said here* | seagulls *= seagull* | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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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