--- title: A rabbit thumps its back foot on the ground to warn of danger, becau… — Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that… · tree and pragmatics description: A rabbit thumps its back foot on the ground to warn of danger, because rabbits are prey animals and always on the lookout. Who acts: rabbit, rabbits. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing/) / 12 # Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 12 A rabbit thumps its back foot on the ground to warn of danger, because rabbits are prey animals and always on the lookout. **Who acts:** rabbit, rabbits · **What happens:** thump, warn, be · **To what, where:** back foot, prey animals 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 (rabbit, rabbits), 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:12 # text = A rabbit thumps its back foot on the ground to warn of danger, because rabbits are prey animals and always on the lookout. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 thumps thump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 advcl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 24 advmod _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 lookout lookout NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thump** | present | a rabbit | side's back foot | | | | on the ground | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent foot=Instrument on ground=Patient | | 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | a rabbit *not said here* | | | | | of danger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent of danger=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | rabbits | prey animals and the lookout | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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:12`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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