--- title: Eyes are especially good at noticing movement, so hunters creep slow… — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics description: Eyes are especially good at noticing movement, so hunters creep slowly and prey animals often freeze. Who acts: Eyes, hunters, prey animals. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/12/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Thinking about noticing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/) / 12 # Thinking about noticing, sentence 12 Eyes are especially good at noticing movement, so hunters creep slowly and prey animals often freeze. **Who acts:** Eyes, hunters, prey animals · **What happens:** be, notice, creep, freeze · **To what, where:** movement 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 (Eyes, hunters, prey animals), 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:12 # text = Eyes are especially good at noticing movement, so hunters creep slowly and prey animals often freeze. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 especially especially ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 at at SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 noticing notice VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 7 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 10 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 creep creep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 freeze freeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Eyes | | | | | especially, good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **notice** | gerund | Eyes *not said here* | movement | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus | | 3 | **creep** | present | hunters | | | | | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **freeze** | present | prey animals | | | | | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:12`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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: [Thinking about noticing, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/11/) - next →: [Thinking about noticing, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/)