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title: Rabbits live in burrows called a warren and warn each other of dange… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rabbits live in burrows called a warren and warn each other of danger by thumping the ground with their back feet and flashing their white tails as they run. Who acts: Rabbits, burrows. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-
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# The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 18

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Rabbits live in burrows called a warren and warn each other of danger by thumping the ground with their back feet and flashing their white tails as they run.

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**Who acts:** Rabbits, burrows · **What happens:** live, call, warn, thump, flash, run · **To what, where:** burrows, warren, each, ground, white tails · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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, burrows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:18
# text = Rabbits live in burrows called a warren and warn each other of danger by thumping the ground with their back feet and flashing their white tails as they run.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	burrows	burrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	warren	warren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	warn	warn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
10	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	9	obj	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	thumping	thump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	back	back	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Rabbits |  |  | burrows |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burrow=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle | burrows *not said here* | a warren |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warren=Recipient |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | Rabbits *not said here* | each |  |  |  | of danger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent each=Recipient of danger=Topic |
| 4 | **thump** | gerund | Rabbits *not said here* | the ground |  |  |  | with rabbits's back feet | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ground=Patient with foot=Instrument |
| 5 | **flash** | gerund | Rabbits *not said here* | rabbits's white tails |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | present | rabbits *= rabbit* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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, R8-pos-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.

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