--- title: And some tales are worse than wrong: the claim that sharks never get… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics description: And some tales are worse than wrong: the claim that sharks never get cancer was used to sell useless pills, and many sharks were killed for them. Who acts: tales, sharks. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Wild animals and tall tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/) / 5 # Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 5 And some tales are worse than wrong: the claim that sharks never get cancer was used to sell useless pills, and many sharks were killed for them. **Who acts:** tales, sharks · **What happens:** be, not get, use, sell, kill · **To what, where:** cancer, claim, useless pills, many sharks This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths 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 (tales, sharks), 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:5 # text = And some tales are worse than wrong: the claim that sharks never get cancer was used to sell useless pills, and many sharks were killed for them. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 cancer cancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 20 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 pills pill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some tales | | | | | than wrong; bad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **get** | present | sharks | cancer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cancer=Stimulus | | 3 | **use** | past · passive | | the claim | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **sell** | to-infinitive | | useless pills | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Theme | | 5 | **kill** | past · passive | | many sharks | | | | for tales *= tale* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:5`. **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, R8-pos-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/4/) - next →: [Wild animals and tall tales, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/)