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title: Cats can see in about one sixth of the light people need, but in tot… — How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing · tree and pragmatics
description: Cats can see in about one sixth of the light people need, but in total darkness a cat sees nothing, just like you. Who acts: Cats, people, cat. A sentence of the lesson «How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing, sentence 8

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Cats can see in about one sixth of the light people need, but in total darkness a cat sees nothing, just like you.

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**Who acts:** Cats, people, cat · **What happens:** see, need · **To what, where:** one sixth, light, nothing, total darkness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing» of the biology 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 (Cats, people, cat), 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:8
# text = Cats can see in about one sixth of the light people need, but in total darkness a cat sees nothing, just like you.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sixth	sixth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | can | Cats |  |  | one sixth of the light |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **need** | present | people | the light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | a cat | nothing |  | total darkness |  | like you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:8`.

**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 ×1. **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/).

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