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title: Real rabbits are shy and freeze or run at the first sign of danger;… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics
description: Real rabbits are shy and freeze or run at the first sign of danger; they can sprint at about 50 km per hour and zigzag. Who acts: Real rabbits, brothers. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 14

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Real rabbits are shy and freeze or run at the first sign of danger; they can sprint at about 50 km per hour and zigzag.

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**Who acts:** Real rabbits, brothers · **What happens:** be, freeze, run, sprint, sign · **To what, where:** first sign, 50 km, danger

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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 rabbits, 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:14
# text = Real rabbits are shy and freeze or run at the first sign of danger; they can sprint at about 50 km per hour and zigzag.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	freeze	freeze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sprint	sprint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	per	per	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Real rabbits |  |  |  |  | shy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **freeze** | present | Real rabbits *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | present | Real rabbits *not said here* |  |  | the first sign of danger |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sign=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sprint** | can | brothers *= brother* |  |  | 50 km per hour |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory |
| 5 | **sign** |  |  | danger |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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**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:14`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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