--- title: Sharks do get cancer, and pills made of shark cartilage (the bendy s… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics description: Sharks do get cancer, and pills made of shark cartilage (the bendy stuff a shark's skeleton is made of) don't cure it; the myth was used to sell pills and has harmed sharks. Who acts: Sharks, bendy stuff, pills. 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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, bendy stuff, pills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:14 # text = Sharks do get cancer, and pills made of shark cartilage (the bendy stuff a shark's skeleton is made of) don't cure it; the myth was used to sell pills and has harmed sharks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 cancer cancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 7 pills pill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 cartilage cartilage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 bendy bendy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:appos 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 21 obl _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 35 pills pill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 harmed harm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ _ 39 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **get** | present · do-support | Sharks | cancer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cancer=Stimulus | | 2 | **make** | participle | | pills *not said here* | | | | of shark cartilage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **make** | present · passive | the bendy stuff *not said here* | a shark's skeleton | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **not** **cure** | present · do-support | pills | skeleton | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source | | 5 | **use** | past · passive | | the myth | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **sell** | to-infinitive | | pills | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Theme | | 7 | **harm** | present · perfect | | sharks | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shark=Experiencer | 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:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:14`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Wild animals and tall tales, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/13/) - next →: [Wild animals and tall tales, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/)