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title: A coyote can run at about 65 km per hour, and coyotes are among the… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics
description: A coyote can run at about 65 km per hour, and coyotes are among the real predators of roadrunners. Who acts: coyote, coyotes. A sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The desert: living with little water, sentence 17

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A coyote can run at about 65 km per hour, and coyotes are among the real predators of roadrunners.

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**Who acts:** coyote, coyotes · **What happens:** run, be · **To what, where:** 65 km

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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 (coyote, coyotes), 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:17
# text = A coyote can run at about 65 km per hour, and coyotes are among the real predators of roadrunners.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	65	65	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	per	per	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | can | a coyote |  |  | 65 km per hour |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | coyotes |  |  |  |  | among the real predators; of roadrunners | 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:005-the-desert.lesson:17`.

**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): no change. **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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