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title: Animals show us how they feel: a rabbit that thumps its back foot is… — Dogs and rabbits in your care · tree and pragmatics
description: Animals show us how they feel: a rabbit that thumps its back foot is warning of danger, and a rabbit that leaps and twists in the air, called a binky, is happy. Who acts: Animals, dog, rabbit. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 3

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Animals show us how they feel: a rabbit that thumps its back foot is warning of danger, and a rabbit that leaps and twists in the air, called a binky, is happy.

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**Who acts:** Animals, dog, rabbit · **What happens:** show, feel, thump, warn, leap, twist · **To what, where:** us, back foot, air, binky · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» of the everyday 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 (Animals, dog, rabbit), 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:3
# text = Animals show us how they feel: a rabbit that thumps its back foot is warning of danger, and a rabbit that leaps and twists in the air, called a binky, is happy.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thumps	thump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	warning	warn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	leaps	leap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	twists	twist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
31	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	binky	binky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **show** | present | Animals |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **feel** | present | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **thump** | present | a rabbit | rabbit's back foot |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present · progressive | a rabbit |  |  |  |  | of danger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent of danger=Topic |
| 5 | **leap** | present | a rabbit |  |  | the air |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory |
| 6 | **twist** | present | a rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **call** | participle | a rabbit *not said here* | a binky |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | present | a rabbit |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | 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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**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 ×2. **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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