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title: Every animal's senses fit the way it lives: a hunter needs to find i… — Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell · tree and pragmatics
description: Every animal's senses fit the way it lives: a hunter needs to find its food, and the hunted need to notice danger in time. Who acts: senses, way, hunter, animal. A sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 0

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Every animal's senses fit the way it lives: a hunter needs to find its food, and the hunted need to notice danger in time.

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**Who acts:** senses, way, hunter, animal · **What happens:** fit, live, need, find, hunt, notice · **To what, where:** way, food, danger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world 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 (senses, way, hunter, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:079-senses-of-animals.lesson:0
# text = Every animal's senses fit the way it lives: a hunter needs to find its food, and the hunted need to notice danger in time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 079-senses-of-animals.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	senses	sense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
22	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present | every animal's senses | the way |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | present | way | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme way=Location |
| 3 | **need** | present | a hunter |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a hunter *not said here* | hunter's food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 5 | **hunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **need** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **notice** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | danger |  |  | time |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus |
| 8 | **sense** |  | every animal |  |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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