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title: Speed is how far you go in a certain time: when the car's speedomete… — Speed: fast and slow · tree and pragmatics
description: Speed is how far you go in a certain time: when the car's speedometer shows 50, the car would cover 50 kilometres if it kept that speed for a whole hour. Who acts: Speed, speedometer, car. A sentence of the lesson «Speed: fast and slow» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Speed: fast and slow, sentence 0

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Speed is how far you go in a certain time: when the car's speedometer shows 50, the car would cover 50 kilometres if it kept that speed for a whole hour.

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**Who acts:** Speed, speedometer, car · **What happens:** be, show, cover, keep · **To what, where:** 50, 50 kilometres, speed

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speed: fast and slow» of the physics 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 (Speed, speedometer, car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:036-speed-fast-and-slow.lesson:0
# text = Speed is how far you go in a certain time: when the car's speedometer shows 50, the car would cover 50 kilometres if it kept that speed for a whole hour.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 036-speed-fast-and-slow.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	Speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	speedometer	speedometer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
18	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | present | Speed |  |  |  | time | far, go *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | the car's speedometer | 50 |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 50=Recipient |
| 3 | **cover** | would | the car | 50 kilometres |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=Destination |
| 4 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | car | that speed |  |  | hour |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=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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**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.

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