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title: Red foxes live in many cities, like London and Bristol, eating worms… — The city as a habitat · tree and pragmatics
description: Red foxes live in many cities, like London and Bristol, eating worms, rats, fruit and scraps, with dens in gardens, parks and railway banks. Who acts: Red foxes. A sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The city as a habitat, sentence 6

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Red foxes live in many cities, like London and Bristol, eating worms, rats, fruit and scraps, with dens in gardens, parks and railway banks.

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**Who acts:** Red foxes · **What happens:** live, eat · **To what, where:** many cities

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» 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 (Red foxes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:6
# text = Red foxes live in many cities, like London and Bristol, eating worms, rats, fruit and scraps, with dens in gardens, parks and railway banks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 014-the-city-as-a-habitat.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 ×2
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	dens	den	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | Red foxes |  |  | many cities like London and Bristol and eating worms and rats and fruit and scraps and dens in gardens and parks and railway banks |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 ×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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