--- title: A shark-on-a-flooded-motorway photo turns up after almost every big… — Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet · tree and pragmatics description: A shark-on-a-flooded-motorway photo turns up after almost every big flood; it has been checked many times and is an old picture edited to add the shark. Who acts: shark. 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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 (shark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:5 # text = A shark-on-a-flooded-motorway photo turns up after almost every big flood; it has been checked many times and is an old picture edited to add the shark. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 motorway motorway NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 12 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 almost almost ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 31 edited edit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **flood** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **turn up** | present | a shark | | | | after every big flood | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **check** | present · perfect · passive | | photo | | | time | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a old picture | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **edit** | participle | | a old picture *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | the shark | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Patient | 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:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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): R5-strong ×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. 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