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title: Real rabbits are not brave officers either: they are shy, watchful p… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics
description: Real rabbits are not brave officers either: they are shy, watchful prey that hear danger early with their big ears and bolt before a fox gets close. Who acts: Real rabbits, villains, watchful prey, fox. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits» of the biology course of Mova's prima
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# Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 2

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Real rabbits are not brave officers either: they are shy, watchful prey that hear danger early with their big ears and bolt before a fox gets close.

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**Who acts:** Real rabbits, villains, watchful prey, fox · **What happens:** not be, be, hear, bolt, get · **To what, where:** brave officers, 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, villains, watchful prey, fox), 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:2
# text = Real rabbits are not brave officers either: they are shy, watchful prey that hear danger early with their big ears and bolt before a fox gets close.
# 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
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	either	either	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	watchful	watchful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj
18	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	bolt	bolt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
29	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Real rabbits | brave officers |  |  |  | either *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | villains *= villain* |  |  |  |  | shy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | present | watchful prey | danger |  |  |  | with villains's big ears; early *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus |
| 4 | **bolt** | present | watchful prey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | present | a fox |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:2`.

**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. **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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