--- title: Whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs full of nerves; cats cannot fo… — How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing · tree and pragmatics description: Whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs full of nerves; cats cannot focus well very close to their noses, so the whiskers sweep forward to feel the prey for the last few centimetres, and cats also have stiff whiskers on the backs of their front legs. Who acts: Whiskers, cats. 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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 (Whiskers, cats), 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:11 # text = Whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs full of nerves; cats cannot focus well very close to their noses, so the whiskers sweep forward to feel the prey for the last few centimetres, and cats also have stiff whiskers on the backs of their front legs. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 rooted root VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 focus focus VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 17 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sweep sweep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 28 forward forward ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 41 also also ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 43 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:nmod 48 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 50 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Whiskers | | | | | thick *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **root** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **focus** | can | cats | | | | | close, well *property* | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sweep** | present | the whiskers | | | | | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | to-infinitive | the whiskers *not said here* | the prey | | | | for the last few centimetres | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent prey=Location for centimetre=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | cats | stiff whiskers | | the backs of whiskers's front legs | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisker=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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:119-how-real-cats-hunt.lesson:11`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/10/) - next →: [How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/)