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title: Sharks rarely attack people, because people are not their normal food. — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharks rarely attack people, because people are not their normal food. Who acts: Sharks, people. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 11

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Sharks rarely attack people, because people are not their normal food.

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**Who acts:** Sharks, people · **What happens:** attack, not be · **To what, where:** people, normal food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday 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:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:11
# text = Sharks rarely attack people, because people are not their normal food.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.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	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	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|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	.	_	3	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 | **attack** | present | Sharks | people |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | people | people's normal food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:11`.

**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.

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

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