--- title: Cats do have a brilliant twist called the righting reflex that turns… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics description: Cats do have a brilliant twist called the righting reflex that turns them feet-down in the air, but they still get badly hurt in falls, especially from high windows; a clever skill isn't a superpower. Who acts: Cats, brilliant twist, righting reflex, clever skill. 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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, brilliant twist, righting reflex, clever skill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:1 # text = Cats do have a brilliant twist called the righting reflex that turns them feet-down in the air, but they still get badly hurt in falls, especially from high windows; a clever skill isn't a superpower. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 twist twist NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 righting righting NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 reflex reflex NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 falls fall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 especially especially ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 superpower superpower NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 · do-support | Cats | a brilliant twist | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Patient | | 2 | **call** | participle | a brilliant twist *not said here* | the righting reflex | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | present | the righting reflex | Cats *= cat* | | | | in the air; down *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in air=Topic | | 4 | **hurt** | present · passive | | Cats *= cat* | | falls and high windows | still | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | a clever skill | a superpower | | | | | 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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:1`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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: [Animals in the sea and the river, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/17/) - next →: [Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/)