Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 12

Rabbits have excellent hearing; each long ear can turn on its own to catch sounds from any side, and the ears help them cool down.

Who acts: Rabbits, long ear, ears, sounds · What happens: have, turn, catch, help, cool down · To what, where: excellent hearing, own, sounds, side

This is a sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits» 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, long ear, ears, sounds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hearing	amod
4	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 ear	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ear	amod
8	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 turn	aux
10	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 own	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 own	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turn	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 catch	mark
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 turn	advcl
16	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 catch	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sounds	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 help	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 help	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ears	det
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 help	nsubj
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 help	obj
26	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 help	xcomp
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 cool	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Rabbits	excellent hearing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Patient
2	turn	can	each long ear		rabbit's own	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory
3	catch	to-infinitive	each long ear not said here	sounds	any side	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sound=Theme from side=Source
4	help	infinitive	the ears	sounds = sound		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	cool down	infinitive	sounds = sound not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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, 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:141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits.lesson:12.

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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