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title: In a duck's legs, warm blood going down heats the cold blood coming… — Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a duck's legs, warm blood going down heats the cold blood coming back, so the feet stay just warm enough not to freeze on ice. Who acts: warm blood, cold blood, feet. A sentence of the lesson «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school
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# Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 14

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In a duck's legs, warm blood going down heats the cold blood coming back, so the feet stay just warm enough not to freeze on ice.

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**Who acts:** warm blood, cold blood, feet · **What happens:** go down, heat, come back, stay, not freeze · **To what, where:** cold blood, ice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» 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 (warm blood, cold blood, feet), 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:14
# text = In a duck's legs, warm blood going down heats the cold blood coming back, so the feet stay just warm enough not to freeze on ice.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	heats	heat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | gerund | warm blood |  |  |  |  | in a duck's legs | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in leg=Attribute |
| 2 | **heat** | present | warm blood *not said here* | the cold blood |  |  |  | down *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 3 | **come back** | gerund | the cold blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | present | the feet |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **freeze** | to-infinitive | the feet *not said here* |  |  | ice |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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): no change. **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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