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title: A mother rabbit can have several litters a year with about 4 to 8 ba… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics
description: A mother rabbit can have several litters a year with about 4 to 8 babies each, and because so many rabbits are eaten by hunters, lots of babies keep their numbers up, so in Zootopia Judy's 275 brothers and sisters are a joke built on a real fact. Who acts: mother rabbit, hunters, lots, 275 brothers.
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# Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 13

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A mother rabbit can have several litters a year with about 4 to 8 babies each, and because so many rabbits are eaten by hunters, lots of babies keep their numbers up, so in Zootopia Judy's 275 brothers and sisters are a joke built on a real fact.

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**Who acts:** mother rabbit, hunters, lots, 275 brothers · **What happens:** have, eat, keep up, be, build · **To what, where:** several litters, many rabbits, numbers, joke, real fact

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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 (mother rabbit, hunters, lots, 275 brothers), 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:13
# text = A mother rabbit can have several litters a year with about 4 to 8 babies each, and because so many rabbits are eaten by hunters, lots of babies keep their numbers up, so in Zootopia Judy's 275 brothers and sisters are a joke built on a real fact.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	litters	litter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
28	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	up	up	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
38	Zootopia	Zootopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Judy	Judy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:nsubj
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	275	275	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
45	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
48	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | can | a mother rabbit | several litters |  |  | year | with 4 babies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present · passive | hunters | many rabbits |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **keep up** | present | lots of babies | lots's numbers |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Zootopia Judy's 275 brothers and sisters |  |  | a joke |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **build** | participle |  | a joke *not said here* |  | a real fact |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on fact=Source |

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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.

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