More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 12
Cats twist in the air with a righting reflex to land on their feet, but they can still be badly hurt in falls, so high open windows are a danger to them.
Who acts: Cats, high open windows · What happens: twist, land, hurt, be · To what, where: air, feet, parents, falls, danger
This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cats, high open windows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 twist | nsubj |
| 2 | twist | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twist | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 reflex | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reflex | det |
| 8 | righting | righting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reflex | compound |
| 9 | reflex | reflex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twist | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 land | mark |
| 11 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 twist | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 land | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hurt | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 hurt | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hurt | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hurt | aux |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 hurt | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 hurt | aux:pass |
| 21 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 hurt | advmod |
| 22 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 twist | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 falls | case |
| 24 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hurt | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 danger | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 danger | advmod |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 windows | amod |
| 28 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 windows | amod |
| 29 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 danger | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 danger | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 danger | det |
| 32 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twist | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 danger | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 twist | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | present | Cats | the air | with a righting reflex | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | land | to-infinitive | Cats not said here | parents's feet | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hurt | can · passive | parents = parent | falls | still | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||
| 4 | is a | present | high open windows | a danger | parents = parent | 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, 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:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:12.
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. 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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