The desert: living with little water, sentence 4

Coyote in a cloud of dust; a real roadrunner runs at about 30 km per hour and a real coyote can run about twice as fast, so coyotes do sometimes catch roadrunners.

Who acts: real roadrunner, real coyote, coyotes · What happens: run, run about, catch, cloud · To what, where: 30 km, roadrunners, dust

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 (real roadrunner, real 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	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 cloud	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cloud	det
4	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Coyote	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dust	case
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cloud	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 runs	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 roadrunner	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 roadrunner	amod
10	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 runs	nsubj
11	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Coyote	parataxis
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 30	case
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 30	advmod
14	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 km	nummod
15	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 runs	obl
16	per	per	ADP	_	17 hour	case
17	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 km	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 run	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 coyote	det
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 coyote	amod
21	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 run	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 run	aux
23	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 runs	conj
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 twice	advmod
25	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 run	advmod
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 fast	advmod
27	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 run	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 catch	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	33 catch	advmod
30	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 catch	nsubj
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 catch	aux
32	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 catch	advmod
33	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 run	conj
34	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 catch	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Coyote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	present	a real roadrunner	30 km per hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run about	can	a real coyote		fast, twice property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	present · do-support	coyotes	roadrunners	sometimes property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roadrunner=Theme
4	cloud			dust		nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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:4.

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 ×5, 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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