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title: Eyes at the front of the head, like an owl's or a cat's, both look a… — Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell · tree and pragmatics
description: Eyes at the front of the head, like an owl's or a cat's, both look at the same thing and judge distance well for catching prey; eyes at the sides, like a rabbit's or a horse's, see almost all the way around to spot enemies. Who acts: both, rabbit. A sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how the
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# Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 1

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Eyes at the front of the head, like an owl's or a cat's, both look at the same thing and judge distance well for catching prey; eyes at the sides, like a rabbit's or a horse's, see almost all the way around to spot enemies.

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**Who acts:** both, rabbit · **What happens:** look, judge, catch, see, spot · **To what, where:** distance, prey, way, enemies

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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 (both, rabbit), 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:1
# text = Eyes at the front of the head, like an owl's or a cat's, both look at the same thing and judge distance well for catching prey; eyes at the sides, like a rabbit's or a horse's, see almost all the way around to spot enemies.
# 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
1	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	both	both	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	judge	judge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:case
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
46	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
47	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl:unmarked	_	_
51	around	around	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
54	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **look** | present | both |  |  |  |  | at the same thing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme |
| 2 | **judge** | present | both *not said here* | distance |  |  |  | well *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent distance=Value |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund | both *not said here* | prey |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | a rabbit or a horse | all way |  |  |  | around *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus |
| 5 | **spot** | to-infinitive | a rabbit or a horse *not said here* | enemies |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme enemy=Destination |

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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. **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.

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