--- title: A greater roadrunner can run at about 30 km per hour, while a coyote… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: greater roadrunner, coyote, coyotes. A sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» of the biology course --- [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/6/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/) / 6 # Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 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. **Who acts:** greater roadrunner, coyote, coyotes · **What happens:** run, catch, eat · **To what, where:** 30 km, roadrunners This is a sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» 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 (greater roadrunner, coyote, coyotes), 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:6 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 roadrunner roadrunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 per per ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 coyote coyote NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 19 than than ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 advmod _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 22 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 coyotes coyote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 30 roadrunners roadrunner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 greater roadrunner | | | 30 km per hour | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory | | 2 | **run** | can | a coyote | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **catch** | present | coyotes | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | infinitive | coyotes *not said here* | roadrunners | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roadrunner=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](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:6`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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