Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest, sentence 16
A real roadrunner is a bird that runs about thirty kilometres an hour, and a real coyote can run about twice as fast.
Who acts: real roadrunner, bird, real coyote · What happens: be, run about · To what, where: bird, thirty kilometres
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest» 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, bird, real 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 | 6 bird | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 runs | nsubj |
| 8 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | acl:relcl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 thirty | advmod |
| 10 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 kilometres | nummod |
| 11 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 runs | obj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 runs | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 run | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 run | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 coyote | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coyote | amod |
| 18 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 run | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 run | aux |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bird | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 twice | advmod |
| 22 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 run | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 fast | advmod |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 run | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | 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 | is a | present | a real roadrunner | a bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run about | present | a bird | thirty kilometres | hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | run about | can | a real 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:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:16.
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. 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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