Thinking about noticing, sentence 10

Hunters such as cats and owls have eyes at the front, so their two eyes see largely the same view, which helps judge distance.

Who acts: Hunters, two eyes, same view · What happens: have, see, help, judge · To what, where: eyes, front, same view, distance

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» 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 (Hunters, two eyes, same view), 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	Hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	4 cats	case
3	as	as	ADP	_	2 such	fixed
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hunters	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 owls	cc
6	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cats	conj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 front	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 front	det
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 see	advmod
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 eyes	nummod
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	nsubj
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	conj
18	largely	largely	ADV	_	17 see	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 view	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 view	amod
21	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 helps	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 helps	nsubj
24	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 view	acl:relcl
25	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 helps	xcomp
26	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 judge	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Hunters such cats and owls	eyes	the front		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	see	present	eyes's two eyes	the same view		largely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer view=Stimulus
3	help	present	the same view				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	judge	infinitive	the same view not said here	distance			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent distance=Value

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:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:10.

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): R5-strong ×3. 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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