--- title: Cats sleep about 12 to 16 hours a day, because hunters save energy b… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats sleep about 12 to 16 hours a day, because hunters save energy between short bursts of action, and lions also sleep most of the day. Who acts: Cats, hunters, lions. A sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/21/) [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 through history: Egypt's sacred c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/) / 21 # Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 21 Cats sleep about 12 to 16 hours a day, because hunters save energy between short bursts of action, and lions also sleep most of the day. **Who acts:** Cats, hunters, lions · **What happens:** sleep, save, burst · **To what, where:** energy, most, action This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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 (Cats, hunters, lions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:21 # text = Cats sleep about 12 to 16 hours a day, because hunters save energy between short bursts of action, and lions also sleep most of the day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.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 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 ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 7 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:unmarked 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 save save VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 14 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 between between ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bursts burst NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 also also ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . 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 | | | | day; hour | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **save** | present | hunters | energy | | | | between short bursts of action | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** | present | lions | most of the day | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme | | 4 | **burst** | | | action | | | | | nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:21`. **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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