Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 9
In a steep dive a peregrine falcon can go over 300 kilometres an hour, the fastest of any animal.
Who acts: peregrine falcon · What happens: go over · To what, where: 300 kilometres, steep dive
This is a sentence of the lesson «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» 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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 dive | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dive | det |
| 3 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dive | amod |
| 4 | dive | dive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 falcon | det |
| 6 | peregrine | peregrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 falcon | compound |
| 7 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 300 | advmod |
| 11 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 kilometres | nummod |
| 12 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hour | det |
| 14 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kilometres | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fastest | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fastest | det |
| 17 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 go | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 animal | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 animal | det |
| 20 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fastest | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go over | can | a peregrine falcon | 300 kilometres a hour | a steep dive | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in dive=Location |
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:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.lesson:9.
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): 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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