The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 10

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, diving at over 300 kilometres an hour; on land the cheetah reaches about 100 to 110, and in water the sailfish is among the fastest.

Who acts: peregrine falcon, cheetah, sailfish · What happens: be, dive, reach · To what, where: fastest animal, 300 kilometres, 100 110, land, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» 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, cheetah, sailfish), 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	7 animal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
6	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 diving	punct
9	diving	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 animal	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 kilometres	case
11	over	over	ADV	_	12 300	advmod
12	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 kilometres	nummod
13	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 diving	obl
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hour	det
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 land	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 land	case
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reaches	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cheetah	det
20	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reaches	nsubj
21	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	parataxis
22	about	about	ADV	_	25 110	advmod
23	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 110	compound
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 110	case
25	110	110	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 reaches	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fastest	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fastest	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 water	case
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fastest	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sailfish	det
31	sailfish	sailfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fastest	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 fastest	cop
33	among	among	ADP	_	35 fastest	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fastest	det
35	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 reaches	conj
36	.	.	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 peregrine falcon	the fastest animal			tree rules
2	dive	gerund	the peregrine falcon not said here		300 kilometres a hour		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at kilometre=Location
3	reach	present	the cheetah	100 110	land		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 110=Theme
4	is	present	the sailfish		water	fast property	tree rules

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:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:10.

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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