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title: Many predators, such as cats and owls, have eyes in front to judge d… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics
description: Many predators, such as cats and owls, have eyes in front to judge distance; many prey, such as rabbits and deer, have eyes on the sides to see all around. Who acts: Many predators, many prey. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» of the biology course of Mova'
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# Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 12

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Many predators, such as cats and owls, have eyes in front to judge distance; many prey, such as rabbits and deer, have eyes on the sides to see all around.

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**Who acts:** Many predators, many prey · **What happens:** have, judge, see · **To what, where:** eyes, front, distance, sides

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» 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 (Many predators, many prey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.lesson:12
# text = Many predators, such as cats and owls, have eyes in front to judge distance; many prey, such as rabbits and deer, have eyes on the sides to see all around.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.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 ×3
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
16	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	prey	prey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
34	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	around	around	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Many predators such cats and owls | eyes |  | front |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **judge** | to-infinitive | Many predators such cats and owls *not said here* | distance |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent distance=Value |
| 3 | **have** | present | many prey such rabbits and deer | eyes |  | the sides |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | many prey such rabbits and deer *not said here* | eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | around *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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 ×3. **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.

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