Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 11

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 · What happens: fall, twist, turn down, hurt · To what, where: front half, feet, cats

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» of the physics 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 (falling cat, high 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twists	nsubj
4	twists	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 half	nmod:poss
6	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 half	amod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 twists	obj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 way	nummod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twists	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 back	cc
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	conj
13	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	15 other	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 back	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 turn	mark
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 twists	advcl
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 turn	obj
20	down	down	ADV	_	17 turn	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hurt	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 hurt	cc
23	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 falls	amod
24	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hurt	nsubj
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 hurt	advmod
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 twists	conj
27	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hurt	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 twists	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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, 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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