Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 7

Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones in rows behind, so one shark can use thousands of teeth in its life, and shark teeth are common fossils.

Who acts: Sharks, one shark, shark teeth · What happens: lose, grow, use, be · To what, where: teeth, new ones, rows, thousands, life, common fossils

This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» of the biology 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, one shark, shark teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grow	cc
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lose	conj
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 rows	case
12	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	obl
13	behind	behind	ADV	_	12 rows	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 use	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 use	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 shark	nummod
17	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 use	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 use	aux
19	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lose	parataxis
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 teeth	case
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thousands	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 life	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 life	nmod:poss
25	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 use	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fossils	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fossils	cc
28	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 teeth	compound
29	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fossils	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fossils	cop
31	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fossils	amod
32	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lose	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lose	present	Sharks	teeth		time	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality
2	grow	present	Sharks not said here	new ones	rows		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
3	use	can	one shark	thousands of teeth	water's life		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient
4	is a	present	shark teeth	common fossils			tree rules

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, 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:biology:134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.lesson:7.

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, R6-punct-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.

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