--- title: The real greater roadrunner is a desert bird of the cuckoo family th… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: real greater roadrunner, cuckoo family, hour. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real greater roadrunner, cuckoo family, hour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:2 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson # annotation = 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 roadrunner roadrunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 cuckoo cuckoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 rather rather ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 than than CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the real greater roadrunner | a desert bird | | | | of the cuckoo family | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | would | the cuckoo family | | | 30 kilometres a hour | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory | | 3 | **fly** | infinitive | the cuckoo family *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a hour | | | | | for a bird roadrunner's size; 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:2`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/1/) - next →: [Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/)