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title: A rabbit thumps its back foot to warn other rabbits of danger, and t… — Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares a… · tree and pragmatics
description: A rabbit thumps its back foot to warn other rabbits of danger, and the thud travels through the ground into the burrow. Who acts: rabbit, thud. 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 dependency tree 
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# Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 8

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A rabbit thumps its back foot to warn other rabbits of danger, and the thud travels through the ground into the burrow.

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**Who acts:** rabbit, thud · **What happens:** thump, warn, travel · **To what, where:** back foot, other rabbits, 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 (rabbit, thud), 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:8
# text = A rabbit thumps its back foot to warn other rabbits of danger, and the thud travels through the ground into the burrow.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thumps	thump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thud	thud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	burrow	burrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thump** | present | a rabbit | rabbit's back foot |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | a rabbit *not said here* |  | other rabbits of danger |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient |
| 3 | **travel** | present | the thud |  |  | the ground |  | into the burrow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into burrow=Destination |

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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:8`.

**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.

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

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