--- title: Many animals notice danger before we do because their senses are tun… — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics description: Many animals notice danger before we do because their senses are tuned for it: dogs hear high sounds people cannot and smell far better, and hunted animals such as rabbits and deer have eyes on the sides of their heads to see almost all around. Who acts: Many animals, we, dogs, people. 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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 (Many animals, we, dogs, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:0 # text = Many animals notice danger before we do because their senses are tuned for it: dogs hear high sounds people cannot and smell far better, and hunted animals such as rabbits and deer have eyes on the sides of their heads to see almost all around. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 020-noticing-like-a-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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 notice notice VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 senses sense NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 tuned tune VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl:relcl 25 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 29 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 31 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 33 case _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=33:cc 35 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obl 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:acl 46 almost almost ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 all all ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 around around ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** | present | Many animals | danger | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus | | 2 | **do** | present | we | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tune** | present · passive | | animals's senses | | | | for danger | tree rules | | 4 | **hear** | present | dogs | high sounds | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **smell** | can | people | | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **hunt** | participle | | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **have** | present | hunted animals such rabbits and deer | eyes | | the sides of animals's heads | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 8 | **see** | to-infinitive | hunted animals such rabbits and deer *not said here* | | | | | around *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **sense** | | animals *= animal* | | | | | | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3. **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: [Your uh-oh feeling, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/25/) - next →: [Thinking about noticing, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/)