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title: A cheetah can sprint at about 100 kilometres an hour for a short tim… — Speed: fast and slow · tree and pragmatics
description: A cheetah can sprint at about 100 kilometres an hour for a short time, while a snail takes a few minutes to go a metre. Who acts: cheetah, snail. 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 7

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A cheetah can sprint at about 100 kilometres an hour for a short time, while a snail takes a few minutes to go a metre.

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**Who acts:** cheetah, snail · **What happens:** sprint, take, go · **To what, where:** 100 kilometres, metre

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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 (cheetah, snail), 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:7
# text = A cheetah can sprint at about 100 kilometres an hour for a short time, while a snail takes a few minutes to go a metre.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sprint	sprint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	100	100	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	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **sprint** | can | a cheetah |  |  | 100 kilometres  a hour | time |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory |
| 2 | **take** | present | a snail |  |  |  | minute |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | a snail *not said here* | a metre |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location metre=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:physics:036-speed-fast-and-slow.lesson:7`.

**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. **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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