--- title: Cats have a righting reflex: when they fall they twist head first, t… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats have a righting reflex: when they fall they twist head first, then the body, to land on their feet, but falls from balconies and high windows can still badly hurt them. Who acts: Cats, falls. 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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, falls), 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:9 # text = Cats have a righting reflex: when they fall they twist head first, then the body, to land on their feet, but falls from balconies and high windows can still badly hurt them. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 righting righting NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 reflex reflex NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj 11 twist twist NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 13 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 26 falls fall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 balconies balcony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 35 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **have** | present | Cats | a righting reflex and the body | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reflex=Patient | | 2 | **fall** | present | Cats *= cat* | | | | | first *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **twist** | | Cats *= cat* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **land** | to-infinitive | Cats *= cat* *not said here* | | | Cats's feet | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination | | 5 | **hurt** | can | falls from balconies and high windows | Cats *= cat* | | | still | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:9`. **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. 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