--- title: Roadrunners can fly, but only short and clumsily; they have short ro… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics description: Roadrunners can fly, but only short and clumsily; they have short rounded wings and strong legs, and they belong to the cuckoo family. Who acts: Roadrunners, heads. A sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 9 Roadrunners can fly, but only short and clumsily; they have short rounded wings and strong legs, and they belong to the cuckoo family. **Who acts:** Roadrunners, heads · **What happens:** fly, have, round, belong · **To what, where:** short rounded wings 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 (Roadrunners, heads), 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:9 # text = Roadrunners can fly, but only short and clumsily; they have short rounded wings and strong legs, and they belong to the cuckoo family. # 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 ×2 1 Roadrunners roadrunner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 clumsily clumsily ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 rounded round VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 amod _ _ 15 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 cuckoo cuckoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | can | Roadrunners | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | heads *= head* | short rounded wings and strong legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | | 3 | **round** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **belong** | present | heads *= head* | | | | | to the cuckoo family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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:9`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/)