--- title: The cheetah is the fastest land animal, running over a hundred kilom… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: The cheetah is the fastest land animal, running over a hundred kilometres an hour with long legs, a bendy spine and a big heart, but only for a short dash before it gets too hot. Who acts: cheetah. 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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 (cheetah), 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:6 # text = The cheetah is the fastest land animal, running over a hundred kilometres an hour with long legs, a bendy spine and a big heart, but only for a short dash before it gets too hot. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cheetah cheetah NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 6 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl 10 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 12 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 bendy bendy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 spine spine NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 dash dash NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 34 before before SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 37 too too ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 a** | present | the cheetah | the fastest land animal but a short dash | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | gerund | the cheetah *not said here* | | | hundred kilometres a hour | | with long legs and a bendy spine and a big heart | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over kilometre=Trajectory | | 3 | **get** | present | cheetah | | | | | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:6`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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