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title: Real rabbits are full of surprises: they thump a back foot to warn t… — Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real rabbits are full of surprises: they thump a back foot to warn the warren, see almost all the way round, do happy twisting jumps called binkies, and even eat their own soft droppings to digest food twice. Who acts: Real rabbits, surprises, happy twisting jumps. A sentence of the lesson «Bugs Bun
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# Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 2

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Real rabbits are full of surprises: they thump a back foot to warn the warren, see almost all the way round, do happy twisting jumps called binkies, and even eat their own soft droppings to digest food twice.

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**Who acts:** Real rabbits, surprises, happy twisting jumps · **What happens:** be, thump, warn, see, do, twist · **To what, where:** back foot, warren, way, happy twisting jumps, binkies, own soft droppings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Real rabbits, surprises, happy twisting jumps), 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:2
# text = Real rabbits are full of surprises: they thump a back foot to warn the warren, see almost all the way round, do happy twisting jumps called binkies, and even eat their own soft droppings to digest food twice.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	surprises	surprise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thump	thump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	warren	warren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	round	round	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
26	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	jumps	jump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	binkies	binky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	xcomp	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
41	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	40	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Real rabbits |  |  |  |  | of surprises; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **thump** | present | surprises *= surprise* | a back foot |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | surprises *= surprise* *not said here* | the warren |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warren=Recipient |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | surprises *= surprise* *not said here* | all way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | infinitive | surprises *= surprise* *not said here* | happy twisting jumps |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Eventuality |
| 6 | **twist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **call** | participle | happy twisting jumps *not said here* | binkies |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **eat** | infinitive | surprises *= surprise* *not said here* | surprises's own soft droppings |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Patient |
| 9 | **digest** | to-infinitive | surprises *= surprise* *not said here* | food |  |  |  | twice *property* | 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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