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title: Foxes belong to the dog family, but they hunt alone and climb like c… — Foxes and squirrels · tree and pragmatics
description: Foxes belong to the dog family, but they hunt alone and climb like cats, and fox cubs are born blind in an underground den. Who acts: Foxes. A sentence of the lesson «Foxes and squirrels» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Foxes and squirrels, sentence 8

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Foxes belong to the dog family, but they hunt alone and climb like cats, and fox cubs are born blind in an underground den.

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**Who acts:** Foxes · **What happens:** belong, hunt, climb, bear · **To what, where:** fox cubs, underground den

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Foxes and squirrels» 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 (Foxes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:8
# text = Foxes belong to the dog family, but they hunt alone and climb like cats, and fox cubs are born blind in an underground den.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 215-foxes-and-squirrels.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	Foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
22	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **belong** | present | Foxes |  |  |  |  | to the dog family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | Foxes *= fox* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **climb** | present | Foxes *= fox* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like cats | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bear** | present · passive |  | fox cubs |  | a underground den |  | blind *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:8`.

**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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