--- title: The pronghorn, a deer-like animal of North American grasslands, can… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: The pronghorn, a deer-like animal of North American grasslands, can run fast for a long time, with big lungs and heart and light bones, and some scientists think extinct American cheetahs once made it so fast. Who acts: pronghorn, scientists, extinct American cheetahs. 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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 (pronghorn, scientists, extinct American cheetahs), 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:7 # text = The pronghorn, a deer-like animal of North American grasslands, can run fast for a long time, with big lungs and heart and light bones, and some scientists think extinct American cheetahs once made it so 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pronghorn pronghorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 grasslands grassland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 35 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 cheetahs cheetah NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obj 38 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 39 advmod _ _ 39 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:xcomp 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | can | the pronghorn | | | | time | with big lungs and heart and light bones; fast *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with lung=Material | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past | extinct American cheetahs | animal | | | | fast, once *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | 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:7`. **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 ×2, 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. 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