--- title: Real roadrunners do not say «meep meep»; they make soft cooing sound… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics description: Real roadrunners do not say «meep meep»; they make soft cooing sounds and loud rattles by clattering their beaks. Who acts: Real roadrunners, rockets. A sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 7 Real roadrunners do not say «meep meep»; they make soft cooing sounds and loud rattles by clattering their beaks. **Who acts:** Real roadrunners, rockets · **What happens:** not say, make, clatter · **To what, where:** meep meep, soft cooing sounds, beaks · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Real roadrunners, rockets), 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:7 # text = Real roadrunners do not say «meep meep»; they make soft cooing sounds and loud rattles by clattering their beaks. # 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 ×3 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 roadrunners roadrunner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 meep meep NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 meep meep NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 cooing cooing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 rattles rattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 by by SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 clattering clatter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 advcl _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 . . 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 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Real roadrunners | meep meep | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent meep=Topic | | 2 | **make** | present | rockets *= rocket* | soft cooing sounds and loud rattles | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | | 3 | **clatter** | gerund | rockets *= rocket* *not said here* | rockets's beaks | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beak=Theme | 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:7`. **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 ×3. **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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/6/) - next →: [Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/)