Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 9

Cats have a righting reflex: when they fall they twist head first, then the body, to land on their feet, but falls from balconies and high windows can still badly hurt them.

Who acts: Cats, falls · What happens: have, fall, twist, land, hurt · To what, where: righting reflex, feet, Cats

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 (Cats, falls), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reflex	det
4	righting	righting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reflex	compound
5	reflex	reflex	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fall	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 fall	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fall	nsubj
9	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reflex	acl:relcl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 twist	nsubj
11	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 head	compound
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fall	ccomp
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 fall	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 body	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 body	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 body	det
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reflex	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 land	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 land	mark
20	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 twist	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 land	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hurt	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 hurt	cc
26	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hurt	nsubj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 balconies	case
28	balconies	balcony	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 falls	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 windows	cc
30	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 windows	amod
31	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 balconies	conj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 hurt	aux
33	still	still	ADV	_	35 hurt	advmod
34	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 hurt	advmod
35	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hurt	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Cats	a righting reflex and the body				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reflex=Patient
2	fall	present	Cats = cat				first property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	twist		Cats = cat					tree rules
4	land	to-infinitive	Cats = cat not said here		Cats's feet			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination
5	hurt	can	falls from balconies and high windows	Cats = cat		still	badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:9.

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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