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title: A rabbit's gut needs hay moving through it all the time, and a rabbi… — Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that… · tree and pragmatics
description: A rabbit's gut needs hay moving through it all the time, and a rabbit that stops eating or pooing for half a day needs a vet urgently. Who acts: gut, hay, 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 sc
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# Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 9

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A rabbit's gut needs hay moving through it all the time, and a rabbit that stops eating or pooing for half a day needs a vet urgently.

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**Who acts:** gut, hay, rabbit · **What happens:** need, move, stop, eat, poo · **To what, where:** hay, vet

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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 (gut, hay, 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:9
# text = A rabbit's gut needs hay moving through it all the time, and a rabbit that stops eating or pooing for half a day needs a vet urgently.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	xcomp	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pooing	poo	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	25	det:predet	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	urgently	urgently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **need** | present | a rabbit's gut | hay |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hay=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | hay *not said here* | hay |  |  | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | present | a rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | a rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **poo** | gerund | a rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **need** | present | a rabbit | a vet |  |  |  | urgently *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=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:9`.

**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, R6-punct-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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