Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 16
Wild rabbits live in groups in a network of burrows called a warren; hares are different, living above ground, with babies born furry and with open eyes, while baby rabbits are born bald and blind in the burrow.
Who acts: Wild rabbits, burrows, hares, babies · What happens: live, call, be, bear · To what, where: groups, warren, ground, baby rabbits, burrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» 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 (Wild rabbits, burrows, hares, babies), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rabbits | amod |
| 2 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 groups | case |
| 5 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 network | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 network | det |
| 8 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 burrows | case |
| 10 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 network | nmod |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 burrows | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 warren | det |
| 13 | warren | warren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 different | punct |
| 15 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 different | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 different | cop |
| 17 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 live | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 living | punct |
| 19 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 different | advcl |
| 20 | above | above | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 living | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 furry | punct |
| 23 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 26 furry | mark |
| 24 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 furry | nsubj |
| 25 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 furry | acl |
| 26 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 different | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 eyes | cc |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 eyes | case |
| 29 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 eyes | amod |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 furry | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bald | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 born | mark |
| 33 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rabbits | compound |
| 34 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 born | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 born | aux:pass |
| 36 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 different | advcl |
| 37 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 born | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 blind | cc |
| 39 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 bald | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 burrow | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 burrow | det |
| 42 | burrow | burrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 born | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Wild rabbits | groups | in a network of burrows | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | |||
| 2 | call | participle | burrows not said here | a warren | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warren=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | hares | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | gerund | hares not said here | ground | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above ground=Location | ||||
| 5 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | be | babies | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | bear | present · passive | baby rabbits | the burrow | bald property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
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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 ×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.
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