--- title: Greyhounds can reach about seventy kilometres an hour thanks to long… — Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds · tree and pragmatics description: Greyhounds can reach about seventy kilometres an hour thanks to long legs, a deep chest with big lungs and a bendy spine, yet at home they sleep most of the day. Who acts: Greyhounds. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds/12/) [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/) / [Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds/) / 12 # Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 12 Greyhounds can reach about seventy kilometres an hour thanks to long legs, a deep chest with big lungs and a bendy spine, yet at home they sleep most of the day. **Who acts:** Greyhounds · **What happens:** reach, sleep · **To what, where:** seventy kilometres, most, home This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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 (Greyhounds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:12 # text = Greyhounds can reach about seventy kilometres an hour thanks to long legs, a deep chest with big lungs and a bendy spine, yet at home they sleep most of the day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Greyhounds greyhound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ 9 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 bendy bendy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 spine spine NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | can | Greyhounds | seventy kilometres a hour | | | | thanks to long legs and a deep chest with big lungs and a bendy spine *obl* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme | | 2 | **sleep** | present | greyhounds *= greyhound* | most of the day | | home | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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