--- title: The peregrine falcon is the fastest of all when it dives: it folds i… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: The peregrine falcon is the fastest of all when it dives: it folds its wings and drops at a pigeon like a bullet, faster than a racing car on a straight track. Who acts: peregrine falcon, ant. 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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 (peregrine falcon, ant), 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:2 # text = The peregrine falcon is the fastest of all when it dives: it folds its wings and drops at a pigeon like a bullet, faster than a racing car on a straight track. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 peregrine peregrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 falcon falcon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 obl _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 dives dive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 folds fold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bullet bullet NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 advcl _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 racing racing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 track track NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the peregrine falcon | | | | | of all; fast *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **dive** | present | ant | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **fold** | present | ant | ant's wings | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | | 4 | **drop** | present | ant *not said here* | | | a pigeon | | like a bullet | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at pigeon=Trajectory | 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:2`. **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. **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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