Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest, sentence 6

The cheetah is the fastest land animal, running over a hundred kilometres an hour with long legs, a bendy spine and a big heart, but only for a short dash before it gets too hot.

Who acts: cheetah · What happens: be, run, get · To what, where: fastest land animal, hundred 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 (cheetah), 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	2 cheetah	det
2	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
5	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 animal	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	compound
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 running	punct
9	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 animal	advcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 kilometres	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hundred	det
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 kilometres	nummod
13	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 running	obl
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hour	det
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 legs	case
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 legs	amod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 running	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spine	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 spine	det
21	bendy	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 spine	amod
22	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 legs	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heart	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 heart	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 heart	amod
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 legs	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dash	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 dash	cc
29	only	only	ADV	_	33 dash	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 dash	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dash	det
32	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dash	amod
33	dash	dash	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	conj
34	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 gets	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gets	nsubj
36	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 dash	advcl
37	too	too	ADV	_	38 hot	advmod
38	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 gets	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 animal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cheetah	the fastest land animal but a short dash			tree rules
2	run	gerund	the cheetah not said here		hundred kilometres a hour	with long legs and a bendy spine and a big heart	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over kilometre=Trajectory
3	get	present	cheetah			hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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