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title: Rabbits make two kinds of droppings, hard round ones and soft sticky… — Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their drop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rabbits make two kinds of droppings, hard round ones and soft sticky ones, which they eat straight away so the food passes through the gut twice and more goodness is taken out of tough grass. Who acts: Rabbits, droppings, food. A sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their dr
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# Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 10

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Rabbits make two kinds of droppings, hard round ones and soft sticky ones, which they eat straight away so the food passes through the gut twice and more goodness is taken out of tough grass.

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**Who acts:** Rabbits, droppings, food · **What happens:** make, eat, pass, take out · **To what, where:** two kinds, gut, more goodness, tough grass

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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, droppings, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:10
# text = Rabbits make two kinds of droppings, hard round ones and soft sticky ones, which they eat straight away so the food passes through the gut twice and more goodness is taken out of tough grass.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.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 ×1
1	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl
19	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **make** | present | Rabbits | two kinds of droppings and hard round ones and soft sticky ones |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Product |
| 2 | **eat** | present | droppings *= dropping* | two kinds of droppings and hard round ones and soft sticky ones |  |  |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 3 | **pass** | present | the food |  |  | the gut |  | twice *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gut=Location |
| 4 | **take out** | present · passive |  | more goodness |  | tough grass |  |  | tree rules |

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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:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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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