--- title: Cats can twist in the air to land feet first, but they can still be… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics description: Cats can twist in the air to land feet first, but they can still be badly hurt in falls, especially from high windows or very short drops. Who acts: 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), 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:6 # text = Cats can twist in the air to land feet first, but they can still be badly hurt in falls, especially from high windows or very short drops. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 twist twist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 18 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 falls fall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 especially especially ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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** | can | 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* | feet | | | | first *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme foot=Destination | | 3 | **hurt** | can · passive | | Cats *= cat* | | falls | still | from high windows or short drops; 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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:6`. **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, R6-punct-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: [Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/5/) - next →: [Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/)