--- title: Cats twist in the air with a righting reflex to land on their feet,… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats twist in the air with a righting reflex to land on their feet, but they can still be badly hurt in falls, so high open windows are a danger to them. Who acts: Cats, high open windows. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cats, high open windows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:12 # text = Cats twist in the air with a righting reflex to land on their feet, but they can still be badly hurt in falls, so high open windows are a danger to them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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 ×2 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 twist twist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 righting righting NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 reflex reflex NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 19 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 22 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 falls fall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 27 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twist** | present | Cats | | | the air | | with a righting reflex | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | | 2 | **land** | to-infinitive | Cats *not said here* | | | parents's feet | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination | | 3 | **hurt** | can · passive | | parents *= parent* | | falls | still | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | high open windows | a danger | parents *= parent* | | | | tree rules | 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:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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): R5-strong ×2. **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: [More animal myths: red rags, camel hum…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/11/) - next →: [More animal myths: red rags, camel hum…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/)