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title: Jackrabbits are hares; hares are bigger than rabbits, with longer ea… — Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jackrabbits are hares; hares are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, and live above ground in nests in grass. Who acts: Jackrabbits, hares. A sentence of the lesson «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 6

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Jackrabbits are hares; hares are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, and live above ground in nests in grass.

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**Who acts:** Jackrabbits, hares · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** hares, ground

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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 (Jackrabbits, hares), 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:6
# text = Jackrabbits are hares; hares are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, and live above ground in nests in grass.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Jackrabbits	jackrabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
15	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
18	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	above	above	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 a** | present | Jackrabbits | hares |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | hares |  |  |  |  | than rabbits; with longer ears and legs; big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | hares *not said here* |  |  | ground |  | in nests in grass | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location |

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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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**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:6`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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