--- title: Cats sleep about twelve to sixteen hours a day and are most active a… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: Cats sleep about twelve to sixteen hours a day and are most active at dawn and dusk, when their prey is too. Who acts: Cats, prey. 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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, prey), 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:13 # text = Cats sleep about twelve to sixteen hours a day and are most active at dawn and dusk, when their prey is too. # 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): 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 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 7 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 13 advmod _ _ 13 active active ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 too too ADV RB _ 13 advcl _ _ 24 . . 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 | | | | hour | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Cats *not said here* | | | | dawn | active *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | pupils's prey | | | | | too *property* | tree rules | 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:13`. **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: [Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes an…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/11/) - next →: [Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes an…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/)