--- title: A fox hunting in snow listens for mice underneath, leaps high and di… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics description: A fox hunting in snow listens for mice underneath, leaps high and dives head first onto them; one unproven idea says foxes use the Earth's magnetism to aim. Who acts: fox hunting, one unproven idea, foxes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox hunting, one unproven idea, foxes), 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:8 # text = A fox hunting in snow listens for mice underneath, leaps high and dives head first onto them; one unproven idea says foxes use the Earth's magnetism to aim. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 6 listens listen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 leaps leap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 dives dive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 advmod _ _ 17 onto onto ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 21 unproven unproven ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 27 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 magnetism magnetism NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 aim aim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:acl 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | present | a fox hunting *not said here* | | | snow | | for mice | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in snow=Location for mouse=Theme | | 2 | **leap** | present | a fox hunting | | | | | high, underneath *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dive** | present | a fox hunting *not said here* | head | | | | onto mice *= mouse* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto they=Location | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | one unproven idea | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **use** | present | foxes | the Earth's magnetism | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnetism=Patient | | 6 | **aim** | to-infinitive | foxes *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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. **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. 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