Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 6

A greater roadrunner can run at about 30 km per hour, while a coyote can run more than twice as fast, and coyotes sometimes catch and eat roadrunners.

Who acts: greater roadrunner, coyote, coyotes · What happens: run, catch, eat · To what, where: 30 km, roadrunners

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 (greater roadrunner, coyote, coyotes), 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 roadrunner	det
2	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 roadrunner	amod
3	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 km	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 30	advmod
8	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 km	nummod
9	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl
10	per	per	ADP	_	11 hour	case
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 km	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 run	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 run	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 coyote	det
15	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 run	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 run	aux
17	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 run	advcl
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 twice	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	18 more	fixed
20	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 fast	advmod
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 fast	advmod
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 run	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 catch	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 catch	cc
25	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 catch	nsubj
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	27 catch	advmod
27	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 run	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eat	cc
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 catch	conj
30	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eat	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	can	a greater roadrunner		30 km per hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory
2	run	can	a coyote			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	present	coyotes			sometimes property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	eat	infinitive	coyotes not said here	roadrunners			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roadrunner=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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:6.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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