Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 3

Behind each tooth in the jaw wait rows of spares that move forward like a conveyor belt, so a shark can lose and replace thousands of teeth in its life.

Who acts: rows, spares, shark · What happens: wait, move forward, lose, replace · To what, where: tooth, thousands, life

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» 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 (rows, spares, shark), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 tooth	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 tooth	det
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wait	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 jaw	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jaw	det
6	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tooth	nmod
7	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wait	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 spares	case
10	spares	spare	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rows	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 move	nsubj
12	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spares	acl:relcl
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	12 move	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 belt	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 belt	det
16	conveyor	conveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 belt	compound
17	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 move	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lose	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 lose	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shark	det
21	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lose	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 lose	aux
23	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wait	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 replace	cc
25	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 lose	conj
26	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 replace	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 teeth	case
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 thousands	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 life	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 replace	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	present	rows of spares		each tooth in the jaw		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind tooth=Location
2	move forward	present	spares			like a conveyor belt; forward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	lose	can	a shark				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	replace	infinitive	a shark not said here	thousands of teeth	tooth's life		vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Co-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, 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:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead.lesson:3.

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. 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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