--- title: The fastest humans run about 40 kilometres an hour at top speed; a h… — Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere · tree and pragmatics description: The fastest humans run about 40 kilometres an hour at top speed; a horse runs faster, and a diving peregrine falcon is faster than a racing car. Who acts: fastest humans, horse, diving peregrine falcon. 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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 (fastest humans, horse, diving peregrine falcon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:12 # text = The fastest humans run about 40 kilometres an hour at top speed; a horse runs faster, and a diving peregrine falcon is faster than a racing car. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 diving diving NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 peregrine peregrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 falcon falcon NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 26 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 racing racing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run about** | present | the fastest humans | 40 kilometres a hour | | top speed | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory | | 2 | **run** | present | a horse | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a diving peregrine falcon | | | | | than a racing car; fast *property* | tree rules | 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:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. 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