--- title: Coyote in a cloud of dust; a real roadrunner runs at about 30 km per… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics description: Coyote in a cloud of dust; a real roadrunner runs at about 30 km per hour and a real coyote can run about twice as fast, so coyotes do sometimes catch roadrunners. Who acts: real roadrunner, real coyote, coyotes. A sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» of the biology course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/4/) [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/) / [The desert: living with little water](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/) / 4 # The desert: living with little water, sentence 4 Coyote in a cloud of dust; a real roadrunner runs at about 30 km per hour and a real coyote can run about twice as fast, so coyotes do sometimes catch roadrunners. **Who acts:** real roadrunner, real coyote, coyotes · **What happens:** run, run about, catch, cloud · **To what, where:** 30 km, roadrunners, dust 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 (real roadrunner, real 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:4 # text = Coyote in a cloud of dust; a real roadrunner runs at about 30 km per hour and a real coyote can run about twice as fast, so coyotes do sometimes catch 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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Coyote coyote NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 9 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 10 roadrunner roadrunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound 11 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 15 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 per per ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 coyote coyote NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 23 advmod _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 coyotes coyote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 33 advmod _ _ 33 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 34 roadrunners roadrunner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | present | a real roadrunner | 30 km per hour | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **run about** | can | a real coyote | | | | | fast, twice *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **catch** | present · do-support | coyotes | roadrunners | | | | sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roadrunner=Theme | | 4 | **cloud** | | | dust | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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:4`. **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 ×5, 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/). - ← previous: [The desert: living with little water, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/3/) - next →: [The desert: living with little water, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/)