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title: A real roadrunner can run at about 30 km per hour, but a real coyote… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics
description: A real roadrunner can run at about 30 km per hour, but a real coyote can run about twice as fast. Who acts: real roadrunner, real coyote. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 17

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A real roadrunner can run at about 30 km per hour, but a real coyote can run about twice as fast.

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**Who acts:** real roadrunner, real coyote · **What happens:** run, run about · **To what, where:** 30 km

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:17
# text = A real roadrunner can run at about 30 km per hour, but a real coyote can run about twice as fast.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	per	per	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | can | a real roadrunner |  |  | 30 km per hour |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory |
| 2 | **run about** | can | a real coyote |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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