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title: Cheetahs have dark tear lines from eyes to mouth that may cut the gl… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheetahs have dark tear lines from eyes to mouth that may cut the glare of the sun, and they hunt in the day, while most big cats hunt at night. Who acts: Cheetahs, dark tear lines, lines, most big cats. A sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» of the biology course o
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# Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 11

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Cheetahs have dark tear lines from eyes to mouth that may cut the glare of the sun, and they hunt in the day, while most big cats hunt at night.

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**Who acts:** Cheetahs, dark tear lines, lines, most big cats · **What happens:** have, cut, hunt · **To what, where:** dark tear lines, eyes, glare

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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 (Cheetahs, dark tear lines, lines, most big cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:11
# text = Cheetahs have dark tear lines from eyes to mouth that may cut the glare of the sun, and they hunt in the day, while most big cats hunt at night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	glare	glare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Cheetahs | dark tear lines |  | eyes to mouth |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |
| 2 | **cut** | may | dark tear lines | the glare of the sun |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glare=Product |
| 3 | **hunt** | present | lines *= line* |  |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hunt** | present | most big cats |  |  |  | night |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 ×1, 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.

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