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title: Hunters such as cats and owls have eyes at the front, so their two e… — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics
description: Hunters such as cats and owls have eyes at the front, so their two eyes see largely the same view, which helps judge distance. Who acts: Hunters, two eyes, same view. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Thinking about noticing, sentence 10

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Hunters such as cats and owls have eyes at the front, so their two eyes see largely the same view, which helps judge distance.

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**Who acts:** Hunters, two eyes, same view · **What happens:** have, see, help, judge · **To what, where:** eyes, front, same view, distance

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» of the everyday 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 (Hunters, two eyes, same view), 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:10
# text = Hunters such as cats and owls have eyes at the front, so their two eyes see largely the same view, which helps judge distance.
# 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): R5-strong ×3
1	Hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Hunters such cats and owls | eyes |  | the front |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | present | eyes's two eyes | the same view |  |  |  | largely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer view=Stimulus |
| 3 | **help** | present | the same view |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **judge** | infinitive | the same view *not said here* | distance |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent distance=Value |

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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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**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:10`.

**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 ×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/).

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