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title: Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pe… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics
description: Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields. Who acts: Rabbits, farmers. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 16

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Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.

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**Who acts:** Rabbits, farmers · **What happens:** eat, see, fence · **To what, where:** crops, fields

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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, farmers), 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:16
# text = Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pests	pest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fence	fence	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **eat** | present · do-support | Rabbits | crops and young vegetables |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | present | farmers | crops *= crop* |  |  |  | as pests | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus as pest=Attribute |
| 3 | **fence** | present | farmers *not said here* | farmers's fields |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent field=Destination |

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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:16`.

**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, R7-rel-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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