--- title: Some legends hide a real fact: cats really do twist in the air to la… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics description: Some legends hide a real fact: cats really do twist in the air to land on their feet, but they can still be badly hurt in a fall. Who acts: legends, cats. A sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet/3/) [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/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Cat body language and cat myths: milk,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet/) / 3 # Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 3 Some legends hide a real fact: cats really do twist in the air to land on their feet, but they can still be badly hurt in a fall. **Who acts:** legends, cats · **What happens:** hide, twist, land, hurt · **To what, where:** real fact, air, feet, Cats, fall This is a sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» of the biology 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 (legends, cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:3 # text = Some legends hide a real fact: cats really do twist in the air to land on their feet, but they can still be badly hurt in a fall. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 8 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 really really ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 twist twist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 appos _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | some legends | a real fact | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | | 2 | **twist** | present · do-support | cats | | | the air | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | | 3 | **land** | to-infinitive | cats *not said here* | | | Cats's feet | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination | | 4 | **hurt** | can · passive | | Cats *= cat* | | a fall | still | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:3`. **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. 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