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title: A boy in Ireland took a baby rabbit from a nest in a field to keep a… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ireland took a baby rabbit from a nest in a field to keep as a pet; it was too young to eat on its own, and in two days it died even though he tried to feed it. Who acts: boy, it, rabbit. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's 
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# Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 21

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A boy in Ireland took a baby rabbit from a nest in a field to keep as a pet; it was too young to eat on its own, and in two days it died even though he tried to feed it.

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**Who acts:** boy, it, rabbit · **What happens:** take, keep, be, eat, die, try · **To what, where:** baby rabbit, nest, own, rabbit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» 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 (boy, it, rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:21
# text = A boy in Ireland took a baby rabbit from a nest in a field to keep as a pet; it was too young to eat on its own, and in two days it died even though he tried to feed it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	.	.	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 | **take** | past | a boy in Ireland | a baby rabbit |  | a nest |  | in a field | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme from nest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a boy in Ireland *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a pet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | rabbit's own |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** | past | rabbit |  |  |  | day |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **try** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **feed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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): 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.

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