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title: City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and b… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics
description: City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and bins, so they need smaller areas than country foxes. Who acts: City foxes, bins. 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 o
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# Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 7

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City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and bins, so they need smaller areas than country foxes.

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**Who acts:** City foxes, bins · **What happens:** be, find, need · **To what, where:** food, gardens, smaller areas

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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 (City foxes, bins), 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:7
# text = City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and bins, so they need smaller areas than country foxes.
# 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 ×1
1	City	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
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	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	find	find	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
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	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 | City foxes |  |  |  | night | active, mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | City foxes *not said here* | food |  | gardens and bins |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 3 | **need** | present | bins *= bin* | smaller areas |  |  |  | than country foxes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot area=Theme |

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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:7`.

**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 ×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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