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title: Rabbits are social animals that need lots of space to run and a rabb… — Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rabbits are social animals that need lots of space to run and a rabbit friend; pet rabbits can live eight to twelve years. Who acts: Rabbits, social animals, lots, pet rabbits. A sentence of the lesson «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» of the biology course of Mov
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# Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 14

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Rabbits are social animals that need lots of space to run and a rabbit friend; pet rabbits can live eight to twelve years.

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**Who acts:** Rabbits, social animals, lots, pet rabbits · **What happens:** be, need, run, live · **To what, where:** social animals, lots

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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, social animals, lots, pet 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:14
# text = Rabbits are social animals that need lots of space to run and a rabbit friend; pet rabbits can live eight to twelve years.
# 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	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Rabbits | social animals and a rabbit friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | social animals and a rabbit friend | lots of space |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lots of space *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | can | pet rabbits |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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