--- title: Planes are fast but use a lot of fuel; ships are slow but can carry… — Transport: from horses to planes · tree and pragmatics description: Planes are fast but use a lot of fuel; ships are slow but can carry huge loads cheaply, so most of the world's goods still travel by sea. Who acts: Planes, ships, most. A sentence of the lesson «Transport: from horses to planes» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Transport: from horses to planes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/) / 13 # Transport: from horses to planes, sentence 13 Planes are fast but use a lot of fuel; ships are slow but can carry huge loads cheaply, so most of the world's goods still travel by sea. **Who acts:** Planes, ships, most · **What happens:** be, use, carry, travel · **To what, where:** lot, huge loads This is a sentence of the lesson «Transport: from horses to planes» of the world 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 (Planes, ships, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:099-transport-horses-to-planes.lesson:13 # text = Planes are fast but use a lot of fuel; ships are slow but can carry huge loads cheaply, so most of the world's goods still travel by sea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 099-transport-horses-to-planes.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Planes plane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 11 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 cheaply cheaply ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 22 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 22 nmod _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Planes | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | Planes *not said here* | a lot of fuel | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | ships | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | can | ships *not said here* | huge loads | | | | cheaply *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | | 5 | **travel** | present | most of the world's goods | | | | still | by sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Trajectory | 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:world:099-transport-horses-to-planes.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Transport: from horses to planes, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/12/) - next →: [Transport: from horses to planes, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/)