--- title: A rabbit must never be lifted by its ears; hold it with one hand und… — Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that… · tree and pragmatics description: A rabbit must never be lifted by its ears; hold it with one hand under its chest and one under its bottom, close to your body, because it can kick and hurt its back. Who acts: ears, side. 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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 (ears, side), 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:13 # text = A rabbit must never be lifted by its ears; hold it with one hand under its chest and one under its bottom, close to your body, because it can kick and hurt its back. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 lifted lift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 under under ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj 21 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 kick kick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **not** **lift** | must · passive | side's ears | a rabbit | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | infinitive | | side | | side's chest and side's bottom | | with one hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme under chest=Location | | 3 | **kick** | can | side | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **hurt** | infinitive | side *not said here* | side's back | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Patient | 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:13`. **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 ×2. **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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