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title: Hares are not rodents; they are bigger than rabbits, with longer ear… — The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hares are not rodents; they are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, they live above ground instead of in burrows, and their babies are born with fur and open eyes. Who acts: Hares, sailors. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, 
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# The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 12

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Hares are not rodents; they are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, they live above ground instead of in burrows, and their babies are born with fur and open eyes.

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**Who acts:** Hares, sailors · **What happens:** not be, be, live, bear · **To what, where:** rodents, ground, babies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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 (Hares, sailors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:12
# text = Hares are not rodents; they are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, they live above ground instead of in burrows, and their babies are born with fur and open eyes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	rodents	rodent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	above	above	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	burrows	burrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
37	.	.	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Hares | rodents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | sailors *= sailor* |  |  |  |  | than rabbits; big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | sailors *= sailor* |  |  | ground |  | instead burrows | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above ground=Location |
| 4 | **bear** | present · passive |  | sailors's babies |  |  |  | with fur and open eyes | 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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**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): 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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