Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 2

The real greater roadrunner is a desert bird of the cuckoo family that would rather run than fly, at about 30 kilometres an hour, which is fast for a bird its size.

Who acts: real greater roadrunner, cuckoo family, hour · What happens: be, run, fly · To what, where: desert bird, 30 kilometres

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» 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 (real greater roadrunner, cuckoo family, hour), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roadrunner	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roadrunner	amod
3	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 roadrunner	amod
4	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	compound
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 family	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 family	det
11	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 family	compound
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 run	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 run	aux
15	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 run	advmod
16	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 family	acl:relcl
17	than	than	CCONJ	_	18 fly	cc
18	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 run	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kilometres	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 kilometres	case
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 30	advmod
22	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 kilometres	nummod
23	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 run	obl
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hour	det
25	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kilometres	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fast	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 fast	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fast	cop
29	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hour	acl:relcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 bird	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bird	det
32	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fast	obl
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 size	nmod:poss
34	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bird	nmod:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real greater roadrunner	a desert bird		of the cuckoo family	tree rules
2	run	would	the cuckoo family		30 kilometres a hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory
3	fly	infinitive	the cuckoo family not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	a hour			for a bird roadrunner's size; fast property	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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:2.

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): R7-rel-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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