--- title: You hold a rabbit by supporting its bottom and back legs and keep it… — Dogs and rabbits in your care · tree and pragmatics description: You hold a rabbit by supporting its bottom and back legs and keep it low, because a fall or a kick can break its back. Who acts: You, fall. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:15 # text = You hold a rabbit by supporting its bottom and back legs and keep it low, because a fall or a kick can break its back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 supporting support VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 keep keep 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 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 kick kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | You | a rabbit | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme | | 2 | **support** | gerund | You *not said here* | adult's bottom and back legs | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottom=Stimulus | | 3 | **keep** | present | You *not said here* | adult | | | | low *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **break** | can | a fall or a kick | adult's back | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Patient | 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. **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:everyday:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:15`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dogs and rabbits in your care, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/14/) - next →: [Dogs and rabbits in your care, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/)