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title: Rabbits have excellent hearing; each long ear can turn on its own to… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics
description: Rabbits have excellent hearing; each long ear can turn on its own to catch sounds from any side, and the ears help them cool down. Who acts: Rabbits, long ear, ears, sounds. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 12

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Rabbits have excellent hearing; each long ear can turn on its own to catch sounds from any side, and the ears help them cool down.

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**Who acts:** Rabbits, long ear, ears, sounds · **What happens:** have, turn, catch, help, cool down · **To what, where:** excellent hearing, own, sounds, side

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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 (Rabbits, long ear, ears, sounds), 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:12
# text = Rabbits have excellent hearing; each long ear can turn on its own to catch sounds from any side, and the ears help them cool down.
# 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): no change
1	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Rabbits | excellent hearing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** | can | each long ear |  |  | rabbit's own |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | each long ear *not said here* | sounds |  | any side |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sound=Theme from side=Source |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | the ears | sounds *= sound* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **cool down** | infinitive | sounds *= sound* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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): no change. **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.

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