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title: A happy rabbit may do a binky, leaping and twisting in the air, or f… — Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that… · tree and pragmatics
description: A happy rabbit may do a binky, leaping and twisting in the air, or flop suddenly onto its side to rest. Who acts: happy rabbit. 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 with its dependency tree and t
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# Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 11

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A happy rabbit may do a binky, leaping and twisting in the air, or flop suddenly onto its side to rest.

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**Who acts:** happy rabbit · **What happens:** do, leap, twist, flop, rest · **To what, where:** binky, air, side

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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 (happy rabbit), 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:11
# text = A happy rabbit may do a binky, leaping and twisting in the air, or flop suddenly onto its side to rest.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	binky	binky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	flop	flop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | may | a happy rabbit | a binky |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent binky=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leap** | gerund | a happy rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **twist** | gerund | a happy rabbit *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory |
| 4 | **flop** | infinitive | a happy rabbit *not said here* |  |  | air's side |  | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | a happy rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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