--- title: Cats sleep or doze about 12 to 16 hours a day to save energy for sho… — How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing · tree and pragmatics description: Cats sleep or doze about 12 to 16 hours a day to save energy for short bursts of hunting, and they are most active at dawn and dusk, when mice and many birds are on the move. Who acts: Cats, collar, mice. 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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 (Cats, collar, mice), 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:16 # text = Cats sleep or doze about 12 to 16 hours a day to save energy for short bursts of hunting, and they are most active at dawn and dusk, when mice and many birds are on the move. # 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): no change 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 doze doze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 14 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bursts burst NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 25 advmod _ _ 25 active active ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 32 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 advcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | present | Cats | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **doze** | present | Cats *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | Cats *not said here* | energy | | | | for short bursts of hunting | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent energy=Theme for burst=Source | | 4 | **is** | present | collar | | | | dawn | active *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | mice and many birds | | | the move | | | tree rules | | 6 | **burst** | | | hunting | | | | | nom burst «act transitive»: of=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:16`. **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): no change. **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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/15/) - next →: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/)