--- title: A cat that sleeps all afternoon is not lazy: like its wild relatives… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: A cat that sleeps all afternoon is not lazy: like its wild relatives it saves energy for the hunting hours at dawn and dusk. Who acts: cat. 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 prag --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 4 A cat that sleeps all afternoon is not lazy: like its wild relatives it saves energy for the hunting hours at dawn and dusk. **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** sleep, not be, save · **To what, where:** energy 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 (cat), 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:4 # text = A cat that sleeps all afternoon is not lazy: like its wild relatives it saves energy for the hunting hours at dawn and dusk. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 17 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | a cat | | | | afternoon | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | a cat | | | | | lazy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **save** | present | cat | energy | | | dawn; hour | like cat's wild relatives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | 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. 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