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title: Red foxes are clever and adaptable; «sly» is a human story, and they… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics
description: Red foxes are clever and adaptable; «sly» is a human story, and they eat mice, rabbits, worms, insects, fruit and scraps. Who acts: Red foxes, sly, animals. 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 pra
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# Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 5

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Red foxes are clever and adaptable; «sly» is a human story, and they eat mice, rabbits, worms, insects, fruit and scraps.

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**Who acts:** Red foxes, sly, animals · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** human story, mice

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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 (Red foxes, sly, animals), 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:5
# text = Red foxes are clever and adaptable; «sly» is a human story, and they eat mice, rabbits, worms, insects, fruit and scraps.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	adaptable	adaptable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	sly	sly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj
30	.	.	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 | Red foxes |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Red foxes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | sly | a human story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | present | animals *= animal* | mice and rabbits and worms and insects and fruit and scraps |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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