Thinking about noticing, sentence 12
Eyes are especially good at noticing movement, so hunters creep slowly and prey animals often freeze.
Who acts: Eyes, hunters, prey animals · What happens: be, notice, creep, freeze · To what, where: movement
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 (Eyes, hunters, prey animals), 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 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 noticing | mark |
| 6 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 good | advcl |
| 7 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noticing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 creep | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 creep | advmod |
| 10 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 creep | nsubj |
| 11 | creep | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | conj |
| 12 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 creep | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 freeze | cc |
| 14 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 animals | compound |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 freeze | nsubj |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 freeze | advmod |
| 17 | freeze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 creep | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Eyes | especially, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | notice | gerund | Eyes not said here | movement | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | creep | present | hunters | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | freeze | present | prey animals | often property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «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:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.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): R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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