--- title: Its tools are amazing: eyes with a shiny mirror layer that makes the… — How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing · tree and pragmatics description: Its tools are amazing: eyes with a shiny mirror layer that makes them glow green in a torch beam, ears that turn on their own to point at a sound, and whiskers that sweep forward around the prey at the moment of the catch. Who acts: tools, shiny mirror layer, ears, whiskers. 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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 (tools, shiny mirror layer, ears, whiskers), 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:3 # text = Its tools are amazing: eyes with a shiny mirror layer that makes them glow green in a torch beam, ears that turn on their own to point at a sound, and whiskers that sweep forward around the prey at the moment of the catch. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 amazing amazing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 glow glow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 torch torch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 point point VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:xcomp 30 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 sweep sweep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 forward forward ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 around around ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 catch catch NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | cat's tools | | | | | amazing *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | a shiny mirror layer and ears and whiskers | tools *= tool* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **glow** | infinitive | tools *= tool* *not said here* | | | a torch beam | | green *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beam=Location | | 4 | **turn** | present | ears | | | ears's own | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory | | 5 | **point** | to-infinitive | ears *not said here* | | | a sound | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sweep** | present | whiskers | | | the prey | moment | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around prey=Trajectory | 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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