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title: Shark attacks are very rare everywhere and almost unheard of around… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics
description: Shark attacks are very rare everywhere and almost unheard of around Britain; strong currents, sunburn and jellyfish are much more common risks at the beach. Who acts: Shark attacks, strong currents. A sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world course of Mova's primary 
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# "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 9

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Shark attacks are very rare everywhere and almost unheard of around Britain; strong currents, sunburn and jellyfish are much more common risks at the beach.

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**Who acts:** Shark attacks, strong currents · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** common risks, beach

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world 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 (Shark attacks, strong currents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:9
# text = Shark attacks are very rare everywhere and almost unheard of around Britain; strong currents, sunburn and jellyfish are much more common risks at the beach.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	unheard	unheard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	currents	current	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
19	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	risks	risk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Shark attacks |  |  |  |  | everywhere, rare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Shark attacks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Britain; almost *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | strong currents and sunburn and jellyfish | common risks |  | the beach |  |  | 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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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/).

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