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title: Rabbits eat some of their own droppings, soft ones made at night, to… — Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rabbits eat some of their own droppings, soft ones made at night, to digest their food a second time; this is normal and healthy, and the hard round droppings you see are the ones they do not eat. Who acts: Rabbits, this, you, hard round droppings. A sentence of the lesson «Rabbits: hay not carrots,
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# Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 10

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Rabbits eat some of their own droppings, soft ones made at night, to digest their food a second time; this is normal and healthy, and the hard round droppings you see are the ones they do not eat.

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**Who acts:** Rabbits, this, you, hard round droppings · **What happens:** eat, make, digest, be, see, not eat · **To what, where:** some, soft ones, food, hard round droppings, ones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» 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, this, you, hard round droppings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.lesson:10
# text = Rabbits eat some of their own droppings, soft ones made at night, to digest their food a second time; this is normal and healthy, and the hard round droppings you see are the ones they do not eat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.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	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	parataxis	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Rabbits | some |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | soft ones *not said here* |  |  | night |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **digest** | to-infinitive | Rabbits *not said here* | rabbits's food |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | present | you | the hard round droppings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dropping=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | present | the hard round droppings | the ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | rabbits *= rabbit* | the ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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**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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