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title: Real red foxes are not sly villains: they are careful, curious anima… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics
description: Real red foxes are not sly villains: they are careful, curious animals that learn fast and eat almost anything, which is why they live everywhere from the Arctic to the middle of London. Who acts: Real red foxes, villains, curious animals. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits» 
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# Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 1

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Real red foxes are not sly villains: they are careful, curious animals that learn fast and eat almost anything, which is why they live everywhere from the Arctic to the middle of London.

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**Who acts:** Real red foxes, villains, curious animals · **What happens:** not be, be, learn, eat, live · **To what, where:** sly villains, anything

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits» 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 red foxes, villains, curious animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits.lesson:1
# text = Real red foxes are not sly villains: they are careful, curious animals that learn fast and eat almost anything, which is why they live everywhere from the Arctic to the middle of London.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	villains	villain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
28	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Real red foxes | sly villains and curious animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | villains *= villain* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | present | curious animals |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | present | curious animals *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | present | villains *= villain* |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits.lesson:1`.

**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): R8-pos-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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