--- title: A passenger plane flies at about 900 kilometres an hour, many times… — Speed: fast and slow · tree and pragmatics description: A passenger plane flies at about 900 kilometres an hour, many times faster than a car, yet high in the sky it is so far away that it seems to crawl. Who acts: passenger plane, car, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passenger plane, car, it), 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:15 # text = A passenger plane flies at about 900 kilometres an hour, many times faster than a car, yet high in the sky it is so far away that it seems to crawl. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 passenger passenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 900 900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 parataxis _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advcl 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 27 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 20 parataxis _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 crawl crawl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | a passenger plane | | | 900 kilometres a hour | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | car | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **seem** | present | it | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **crawl** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:physics:036-speed-fast-and-slow.lesson:15`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Speed: fast and slow, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/14/) - next →: [Speed: fast and slow, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/)