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title: Too many carrots are sugary and bad for rabbits, whose food should b… — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Too many carrots are sugary and bad for rabbits, whose food should be mostly hay and grass; Bugs Bunny chewing carrots all day is a cartoon idea. Who acts: many carrots, rabbits, Bugs Bunny. A sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» of the biology cou
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# The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 9

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Too many carrots are sugary and bad for rabbits, whose food should be mostly hay and grass; Bugs Bunny chewing carrots all day is a cartoon idea.

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**Who acts:** many carrots, rabbits, Bugs Bunny · **What happens:** be, chew · **To what, where:** hay, carrots, cartoon idea

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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 (many carrots, rabbits, Bugs Bunny), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:9
# text = Too many carrots are sugary and bad for rabbits, whose food should be mostly hay and grass; Bugs Bunny chewing carrots all day is a cartoon idea.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.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	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	Bugs	Bugs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Bunny	Bunny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
22	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | many carrots |  |  |  |  | sugary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | many carrots *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for rabbits | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | should | rabbits *not said here* | hay and grass |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **chew** | gerund | Bugs Bunny *not said here* | carrots |  |  | day |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Bugs Bunny | a cartoon idea |  |  |  |  | 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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.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): 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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