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title: Each long ear can turn on its own to catch sounds from different dir… — Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each long ear can turn on its own to catch sounds from different directions, and the ears also help release heat on hot days. Who acts: long ear, ears. 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 i
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# Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 15

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Each long ear can turn on its own to catch sounds from different directions, and the ears also help release heat on hot days.

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**Who acts:** long ear, ears · **What happens:** turn, catch, help, release · **To what, where:** own, sounds, different directions, heat

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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 (long ear, ears), 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:15
# text = Each long ear can turn on its own to catch sounds from different directions, and the ears also help release heat on hot days.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
22	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **turn** | can | each long ear |  |  | friend's own |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | each long ear *not said here* | sounds |  | different directions |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sound=Theme from direction=Source |
| 3 | **help** | present | the ears |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **release** | infinitive | the ears *not said here* | heat |  |  | day |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer heat=Source |

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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:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.

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

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