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title: An ostrich in danger runs at up to about seventy kilometres an hour… — Ducks, geese and farm myths · tree and pragmatics
description: An ostrich in danger runs at up to about seventy kilometres an hour or kicks hard. Who acts: ostrich. A sentence of the lesson «Ducks, geese and farm myths» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 14

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An ostrich in danger runs at up to about seventy kilometres an hour or kicks hard.

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**Who acts:** ostrich · **What happens:** run, kick · **To what, where:** seventy kilometres

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ducks, geese and farm myths» 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 (ostrich), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:14
# text = An ostrich in danger runs at up to about seventy kilometres an hour or kicks hard.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
10	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	kicks	kick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | a ostrich in danger |  |  | seventy kilometres  a hour |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory |
| 2 | **kick** | present | a ostrich in danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:14`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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