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title: Rabbits thump their back feet to warn others of danger, and the thum… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: Rabbits thump their back feet to warn others of danger, and the thump travels through the ground into burrows. Who acts: Rabbits, thump. A sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 9

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Rabbits thump their back feet to warn others of danger, and the thump travels through the ground into burrows.

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**Who acts:** Rabbits, thump · **What happens:** thump, warn, travel · **To what, where:** back feet, others, ground

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» 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, thump), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson:9
# text = Rabbits thump their back feet to warn others of danger, and the thump travels through the ground into burrows.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.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): no change
1	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thump	thump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thump	thump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	burrows	burrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **thump** | present | Rabbits | deer's back feet |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | Rabbits *not said here* | others of danger |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient |
| 3 | **travel** | present | the thump |  |  | the ground |  | into burrows | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into burrow=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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**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): no change. **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.

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