--- title: Cats twist in the air to land on their feet, the righting reflex, bu… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat · tree and pragmatics description: Cats twist in the air to land on their feet, the righting reflex, but it is a myth that they are always safe when they fall, so keep windows and balconies closed. Who acts: Cats, whiskers, 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, whiskers, windows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:15 # text = Cats twist in the air to land on their feet, the righting reflex, but it is a myth that they are always safe when they fall, so keep windows and balconies closed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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 ×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 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 righting righting NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 reflex reflex NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 25 advmod _ _ 25 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 acl _ _ 26 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 32 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 balconies balcony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 35 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twist** | present | Cats | | | the air | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | | 2 | **land** | to-infinitive | Cats *not said here* | | | whiskers's feet | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination | | 3 | **is a** | present | Cats *not said here* | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | whiskers *= whisker* | a myth *not said here* | | | | always, safe *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fall** | present | whiskers *= whisker* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **keep** | infinitive | | windows and balconies | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **close** | participle | windows and balconies *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:15`. **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 ×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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