--- title: In bright sun a cat's pupils shrink to thin slits to let in very lit… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: In bright sun a cat's pupils shrink to thin slits to let in very little light, and in the dark they open into huge circles. Who acts: pupils. A sentence of the lesson «Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/) / 10 # Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 10 In bright sun a cat's pupils shrink to thin slits to let in very little light, and in the dark they open into huge circles. **Who acts:** pupils · **What happens:** shrink, let, open · **To what, where:** bright sun, little light This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming» 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 (pupils), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.lesson:10 # text = In bright sun a cat's pupils shrink to thin slits to let in very little light, and in the dark they open into huge circles. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.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 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 shrink shrink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 slits slit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 open open VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl:relcl 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 circles circle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shrink** | present | a cat's pupils | | | bright sun | | to thin slits *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to slit=Result | | 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | a cat's pupils *not said here* | | | little light | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **open** | present | pupils *= pupil* | | | | | into huge circles; in the dark | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dark=Topic into circle=Recipient | 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:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.lesson:10`. **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 ×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. 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