Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest, sentence 2

The peregrine falcon is the fastest of all when it dives: it folds its wings and drops at a pigeon like a bullet, faster than a racing car on a straight track.

Who acts: peregrine falcon, ant · What happens: be, dive, fold, drop · To what, where: wings, pigeon

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 (peregrine falcon, ant), 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	3 falcon	det
2	peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falcon	compound
3	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fastest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fastest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fastest	det
6	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fastest	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 dives	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dives	nsubj
11	dives	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fastest	advcl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 folds	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 folds	nsubj
14	folds	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dives	conj
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wings	nmod:poss
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 folds	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drops	cc
18	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 folds	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 pigeon	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pigeon	det
21	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drops	obl
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 bullet	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bullet	det
24	bullet	bullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drops	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 faster	punct
26	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 dives	advcl
27	than	than	ADP	_	30 car	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 car	det
29	racing	racing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 car	compound
30	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 faster	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 track	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 track	det
33	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 track	amod
34	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 faster	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fastest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the peregrine falcon			of all; fast property	tree rules
2	dive	present	ant				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	fold	present	ant	ant's wings			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	drop	present	ant not said here		a pigeon	like a bullet	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at pigeon=Trajectory

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: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): R5-strong ×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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