How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing, sentence 8
Cats can see in about one sixth of the light people need, but in total darkness a cat sees nothing, just like you.
Who acts: Cats, people, cat · What happens: see, need · To what, where: one sixth, light, nothing, total darkness
This is a sentence of the lesson «How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing» 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 (Cats, people, cat), 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 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sixth | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sixth | nummod |
| 7 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 light | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 light | det |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sixth | nmod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 need | nsubj |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 light | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sees | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 sees | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 darkness | case |
| 16 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 darkness | amod |
| 17 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sees | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cat | det |
| 19 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sees | nsubj |
| 20 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 sees | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 you | punct |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 you | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 sees | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | Cats | one sixth of the light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | need | present | people | the light not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | present | a cat | nothing | total darkness | like you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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:119-how-real-cats-hunt.lesson:8.
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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