The desert: living with little water, sentence 17
A coyote can run at about 65 km per hour, and coyotes are among the real predators of roadrunners.
Who acts: coyote, coyotes · What happens: run, be · To what, where: 65 km
This is a sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» 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 (coyote, coyotes), 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 | 2 coyote | det |
| 2 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 km | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 65 | advmod |
| 7 | 65 | 65 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 km | nummod |
| 8 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obl |
| 9 | per | per | ADP | _ | 10 hour | case |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 km | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 predators | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 predators | cc |
| 13 | coyotes | coyote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 predators | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 predators | cop |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 predators | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 predators | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 predators | amod |
| 18 | predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 run | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 roadrunners | case |
| 20 | roadrunners | roadrunner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 predators | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | can | a coyote | 65 km per hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | coyotes | among the real predators; of roadrunners | 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:005-the-desert.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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