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title: To compare speeds you need both the distance and the time; the winne… — Speed: fast and slow · tree and pragmatics
description: To compare speeds you need both the distance and the time; the winner of a race covers the distance in the least time. Who acts: you, winner. A sentence of the lesson «Speed: fast and slow» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Speed: fast and slow, sentence 6

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To compare speeds you need both the distance and the time; the winner of a race covers the distance in the least time.

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**Who acts:** you, winner · **What happens:** compare, need, cover · **To what, where:** speeds, distance

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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 (you, winner), 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:6
# text = To compare speeds you need both the distance and the time; the winner of a race covers the distance in the least time.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
3	speeds	speed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc:preconj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **compare** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | speeds |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | you | the distance and the time |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot distance=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | present | the winner of a race | the distance |  |  | time |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Destination |

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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:physics:036-speed-fast-and-slow.lesson:6`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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