Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 15
A real roadrunner can run about thirty kilometres an hour, but a coyote can run about twice as fast.
Who acts: real roadrunner, coyote · What happens: run about · To what, where: thirty kilometres
This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 roadrunner, coyote), 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 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 thirty | advmod |
| 7 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 kilometres | nummod |
| 8 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 run | obj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hour | det |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kilometres | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 run | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 run | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 coyote | det |
| 14 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 run | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 run | aux |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 run | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 twice | advmod |
| 18 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 run | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 fast | advmod |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 run | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run about | can | a real roadrunner | thirty kilometres a hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | run about | can | a coyote | fast, twice property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:15.
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 ×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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