--- title: Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In Looney Tunes the Road Runner zooms off in a cloud of dust, says «meep meep», and Wile E. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and… # Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote Lesson 122 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/0/) — In Looney Tunes the Road Runner zooms off in a cloud of dust, says «meep meep», and Wile E. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/1/) — Coyote never catches him, however many ACME rockets he buys. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/2/) — The real greater roadrunner is a desert bird of the cuckoo family that would rather run than fly, at about 30 kilometres an hour, which is fast for a bird its size. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/3/) — But a real coyote can run more than twice as fast, and sometimes a coyote really does catch a roadrunner, though the bird often dodges into a bush in time. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/4/) — Real coyotes use no rockets or traps: they stalk, chase and pounce, live in many cities without being seen, and call to their families with yips and howls at night. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/5/) — And the biggest cartoon fib of all is the cliff: nothing hangs in the air before it falls, because gravity pulls the moment there is no ground below you. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/6/) — A greater roadrunner can run at about 30 km per hour, while a coyote can run more than twice as fast, and coyotes sometimes catch and eat roadrunners. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/7/) — Real roadrunners do not say «meep meep»; they make soft cooing sounds and loud rattles by clattering their beaks. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/8/) — Roadrunners eat lizards, insects, scorpions, mice, small birds and even snakes, including young rattlesnakes, which a roadrunner kills by grabbing and whacking their heads against a rock. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/9/) — Roadrunners can fly, but only short and clumsily; they have short rounded wings and strong legs, and they belong to the cuckoo family. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/10/) — On cold desert mornings a roadrunner lifts its back feathers to warm a patch of dark skin in the sun, since dark skin takes in more heat. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/12/) — Real coyotes do not use tools; they hunt by stalking, chasing and pouncing (for a mouse in grass or snow a coyote leaps high and pounces down on it), alone, in pairs or in small family groups. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/13/) — Coyotes now live in many North American cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, eating rats, mice, fruit and rubbish and moving about at night. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/14/) — Coyotes howl, yip and bark to keep in touch with family and to tell other coyotes the area is taken, and two coyotes can sound like a whole pack. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/15/) — Gravity pulls at once when there is no ground below; the coyote's pause in the air is «cartoon physics», put there so the audience has time to laugh. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/17/) — Roadrunners get most of the water they need from the animals they eat and rarely drink. - ← previous: [Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/) - next →: [Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)