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title: Fennec foxes of the Sahara have enormous ears full of blood vessels… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics
description: Fennec foxes of the Sahara have enormous ears full of blood vessels that give off heat, and the ears also hear prey moving underground. Who acts: Fennec foxes, blood vessels, ears, prey. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 10

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Fennec foxes of the Sahara have enormous ears full of blood vessels that give off heat, and the ears also hear prey moving underground.

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**Who acts:** Fennec foxes, blood vessels, ears, prey · **What happens:** have, give off, hear, move · **To what, where:** enormous ears, heat, prey

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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 (Fennec foxes, blood vessels, ears, prey), 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:10
# text = Fennec foxes of the Sahara have enormous ears full of blood vessels that give off heat, and the ears also hear prey moving underground.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fennec	fennec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl	_	_
25	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **have** | present | Fennec foxes of the Sahara | enormous ears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 2 | **give off** | present | blood vessels | heat |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source heat=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | present | the ears | prey |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus |
| 4 | **move** | gerund | prey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | underground *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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