--- title: The greater roadrunner is a cuckoo that runs at about 30 km per hour… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics description: The greater roadrunner is a cuckoo that runs at about 30 km per hour, eats lizards, insects and even rattlesnakes, and warms up on cold mornings by showing dark skin to the sun. Who acts: greater roadrunner, cuckoo. 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This is a sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» 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 (greater roadrunner, cuckoo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:005-the-desert.lesson:16 # text = The greater roadrunner is a cuckoo that runs at about 30 km per hour, eats lizards, insects and even rattlesnakes, and warms up on cold mornings by showing dark skin to the sun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 005-the-desert.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 roadrunner roadrunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cuckoo cuckoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 per per ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 rattlesnakes rattlesnake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 mornings morning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 by by SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 advcl _ _ 32 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sun. sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ ``` ## 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 greater roadrunner | a cuckoo | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | present | a cuckoo | | | 30 km per hour | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory | | 3 | **eat** | present | a cuckoo *not said here* | lizards and insects and rattlesnakes | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=Patient | | 4 | **warm up** | present | a cuckoo *not said here* | | | | morning | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **show** | gerund | a cuckoo *not said here* | dark skin | the sun. | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent skin=Topic to sun=Recipient | 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:005-the-desert.lesson:16`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [The desert: living with little water, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/15/) - next →: [The desert: living with little water, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/)