--- title: A real roadrunner can run about thirty kilometres an hour, but a coy… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics description: A real roadrunner can run about thirty kilometres an hour, but a coyote can run about twice as fast. Who acts: real roadrunner, coyote. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/15/) [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/) / [Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/) / 15 # Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 15 A real roadrunner can run about thirty kilometres an hour, but a coyote can run about twice as fast. **Who acts:** real roadrunner, coyote · **What happens:** run about · **To what, where:** thirty kilometres This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 roadrunner, coyote), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:15 # text = A real roadrunner can run about thirty kilometres an hour, but a coyote can run about twice as fast. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 coyote coyote NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 16 advmod _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **run about** | can | a real roadrunner | thirty kilometres a hour | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=Trajectory | | 2 | **run about** | can | a coyote | | | | | fast, twice *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:15`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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. 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