--- title: A falling cat twists its front half one way and its back half the ot… — Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely · tree and pragmatics description: A falling cat twists its front half one way and its back half the other to turn its feet down, but high falls still hurt cats. Who acts: falling cat, high 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 (falling cat, high falls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.lesson:11 # text = A falling cat twists its front half one way and its back half the other to turn its feet down, but high falls still hurt cats. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 twists twist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 4 obj _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 15 det:predet _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 down down ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound 24 falls fall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 hurt hurt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **twist** | present | a falling cat | cat's front half | | | | one way and cat's back *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent half=Theme | | 3 | **turn down** | to-infinitive | a falling cat *not said here* | cat's feet | | | | down *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | | 4 | **hurt** | present | high falls | cats | | | still | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=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:physics:003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.lesson:11`. **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, 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. 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