--- title: A real roadrunner is a bird that runs about thirty kilometres an hou… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: A real roadrunner is a bird that runs about thirty kilometres an hour, and a real coyote can run about twice as fast. Who acts: real roadrunner, bird, real coyote. 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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 roadrunner, bird, real coyote), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:16 # text = A real roadrunner is a bird that runs about thirty kilometres an hour, and a real coyote can run about twice as fast. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.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 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 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 coyote coyote NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 20 advmod _ _ 23 as as ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | a real roadrunner | a bird | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run about** | present | a bird | thirty kilometres | | | hour | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=Trajectory | | 3 | **run about** | can | a real 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:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:16`. **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. **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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