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title: Dogs can hear high-pitched sounds that people cannot hear. — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs can hear high-pitched sounds that people cannot hear. Who acts: Dogs, people. 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.
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# Thinking about noticing, sentence 7

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Dogs can hear high-pitched sounds that people cannot hear.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, people · **What happens:** hear, pitch, not hear · **To what, where:** high pitched sounds

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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 (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:7
# text = Dogs can hear high-pitched sounds that people cannot hear.
# 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): no change
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | can | Dogs | high pitched sounds |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pitch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **hear** | can | people | high pitched sounds |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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