--- title: Prey animals such as horses, cows and rabbits survive by noticing da… — Thinking like an animal · tree and pragmatics description: Prey animals such as horses, cows and rabbits survive by noticing danger and escaping, so a sudden noise or a shape they cannot see can make them bolt, kick or bite in fright. Who acts: Prey animals, Animals, sudden noise. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» of the everyday course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/2/) [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 like an animal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/) / 2 # Thinking like an animal, sentence 2 Prey animals such as horses, cows and rabbits survive by noticing danger and escaping, so a sudden noise or a shape they cannot see can make them bolt, kick or bite in fright. **Who acts:** Prey animals, Animals, sudden noise · **What happens:** survive, notice, escape, not see, make, bolt · **To what, where:** danger, shape, Animals, fright This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» 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 (Prey animals, Animals, sudden noise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:2 # text = Prey animals such as horses, cows and rabbits survive by noticing danger and escaping, so a sudden noise or a shape they cannot see can make them bolt, kick or bite in fright. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 030-thinking-like-an-animal.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 5 case _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 10 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 noticing notice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 advcl _ _ 13 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 escaping escape VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl:relcl 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 bolt bolt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 kick kick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **survive** | present | Prey animals such horses and cows and rabbits | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **notice** | gerund | Prey animals such horses and cows and rabbits *not said here* | danger | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus | | 3 | **escape** | gerund | Prey animals such horses and cows and rabbits *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **see** | can | Animals *= animal* | a shape *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus | | 5 | **make** | can | a sudden noise or a shape | Animals *= animal* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bolt** | infinitive | Animals *= animal* *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **kick** | infinitive | Animals *= animal* *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **bite** | infinitive | Animals *= animal* *not said here* | | | fright | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in fright=Location | 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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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 like an animal, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/1/) - next →: [Thinking like an animal, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/)