Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 3

Some legends hide a real fact: cats really do twist in the air to land on their feet, but they can still be badly hurt in a fall.

Who acts: legends, cats · What happens: hide, twist, land, hurt · To what, where: real fact, air, feet, Cats, fall

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» 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 (legends, cats), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 legends	det
2	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hide	nsubj
3	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fact	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fact	amod
6	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 hide	punct
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 twist	nsubj
9	really	really	ADV	_	11 twist	advmod
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 twist	aux
11	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fact	appos
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 twist	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 land	mark
16	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 twist	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 land	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hurt	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 hurt	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hurt	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hurt	aux
24	still	still	ADV	_	27 hurt	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 hurt	aux:pass
26	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 hurt	advmod
27	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 twist	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 fall	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fall	det
30	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hurt	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hide	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	some legends	a real fact				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient
2	twist	present · do-support	cats		the air			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory
3	land	to-infinitive	cats not said here		Cats's feet			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination
4	hurt	can · passive		Cats = cat	a fall	still	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, 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:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:3.

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): no change. 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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