--- title: Rabbits eat their soft droppings to digest their food a second time… — Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares a… · tree and pragmatics description: Rabbits eat their soft droppings to digest their food a second time and get out vitamins missed the first time; their teeth never stop growing, and chewing tough grass all day wears them down. Who acts: Rabbits, vitamins, teeth, chewing. 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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 (Rabbits, vitamins, teeth, chewing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks.lesson:11 # text = Rabbits eat their soft droppings to digest their food a second time and get out vitamins missed the first time; their teeth never stop growing, and chewing tough grass all day wears them down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks.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 ×2 1 Rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 vitamins vitamin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 26 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 csubj _ _ 30 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 down down ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Rabbits | jumps's soft droppings | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Patient | | 2 | **digest** | to-infinitive | Rabbits *not said here* | jumps's food | | | time | | tree rules | | 3 | **get out** | infinitive | Rabbits *not said here* | vitamins | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **miss** | past | vitamins *not said here* | | | | time | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **stop** | present | jumps's teeth | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **grow** | gerund | jumps's teeth *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **chew** | gerund | | tough grass | | | day | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | | 8 | **wear down** | present | chewing | jumps *= jump* | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | 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:biology:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks.lesson:11`. **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 ×2. **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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