--- title: Each cat ear has about 30 muscles and can turn on its own to pinpoin… — How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing · tree and pragmatics description: Each cat ear has about 30 muscles and can turn on its own to pinpoint a sound, and cats hear very high sounds, including mouse squeaks, far above what people hear. Who acts: cat ear, cats, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat ear, cats, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:119-how-real-cats-hunt.lesson:10 # text = Each cat ear has about 30 muscles and can turn on its own to pinpoint a sound, and cats hear very high sounds, including mouse squeaks, far above what people hear. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 119-how-real-cats-hunt.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 pinpoint pinpoint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:xcomp 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 20 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 including include ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 squeaks squeak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 31 above above ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 obl _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | each cat ear | 30 muscles | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient | | 2 | **turn** | can | each cat ear *not said here* | | | cat's own | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory | | 3 | **pinpoint** | to-infinitive | each cat ear *not said here* | a sound | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hear** | present | cats | high sounds | | | | include mouse squeaks; far *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | | 5 | **hear** | present | people | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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