--- title: Cats have a righting reflex that twists them in the air, but they ca… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats have a righting reflex that twists them in the air, but they can still be badly hurt in falls, and vets see many cats that fell from windows; cats do not have nine lives. Who acts: Cats, righting reflex, vets, many cats. 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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, righting reflex, vets, many cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:15 # text = Cats have a righting reflex that twists them in the air, but they can still be badly hurt in falls, and vets see many cats that fell from windows; cats do not have nine lives. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 twists twist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 falls fall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 vets vet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 37 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 . . 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 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reflex=Patient | | 2 | **twist** | present | a righting reflex | pets *= pet* | | the air | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **hurt** | can · passive | | pets *= pet* | | falls | still | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **see** | present | vets | many cats | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | | 5 | **fall** | past | many cats | | | windows | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from window=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | cats | nine lives | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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. 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