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description: The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, diving at over 300 kilometres an hour; on land the cheetah reaches about 100 to 110, and in water the sailfish is among the fastest. Who acts: peregrine falcon, cheetah, sailfish. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals
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# The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 10

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The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, diving at over 300 kilometres an hour; on land the cheetah reaches about 100 to 110, and in water the sailfish is among the fastest.

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**Who acts:** peregrine falcon, cheetah, sailfish · **What happens:** be, dive, reach · **To what, where:** fastest animal, 300 kilometres, 100 110, land, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» 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 (peregrine falcon, cheetah, sailfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:10
# text = The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, diving at over 300 kilometres an hour; on land the cheetah reaches about 100 to 110, and in water the sailfish is among the fastest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.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	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	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	diving	dive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	110	110	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sailfish	sailfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	among	among	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the peregrine falcon | the fastest animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dive** | gerund | the peregrine falcon *not said here* |  |  | 300 kilometres  a hour |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at kilometre=Location |
| 3 | **reach** | present | the cheetah | 100 110 |  | land |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 110=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the sailfish |  |  | water |  | fast *property* | tree rules |

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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:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:10`.

**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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