Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 3

But a real coyote can run more than twice as fast, and sometimes a coyote really does catch a roadrunner, though the bird often dodges into a bush in time.

Who acts: real coyote, coyote, bird · What happens: run, catch, dodge · To what, where: roadrunner, bush

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 coyote, coyote, bird), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 run	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coyote	det
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coyote	amod
4	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 twice	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 fast	advmod
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 fast	advmod
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 run	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 catch	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 catch	cc
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 catch	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 coyote	det
16	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 catch	nsubj
17	really	really	ADV	_	19 catch	advmod
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 catch	aux
19	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 run	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 roadrunner	det
21	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 catch	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dodges	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 dodges	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bird	det
25	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dodges	nsubj
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 dodges	advmod
27	dodges	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 catch	advcl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 bush	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bush	det
30	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dodges	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 time	case
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dodges	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	can	a real coyote				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	present · do-support	a coyote	a roadrunner			sometimes property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roadrunner=Theme
3	dodge	present	the bird		a bush	time	often property	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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: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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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