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title: A fight needs two people, so if one walks away the fight cannot happ… — Walking away · tree and pragmatics
description: A fight needs two people, so if one walks away the fight cannot happen. Who acts: fight, one. A sentence of the lesson «Walking away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Walking away, sentence 22

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A fight needs two people, so if one walks away the fight cannot happen.

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**Who acts:** fight, one · **What happens:** need, walk away, not happen · **To what, where:** two people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking away» of the everyday 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 (fight, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:371-walking-away.lesson:22
# text = A fight needs two people, so if one walks away the fight cannot happen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 371-walking-away.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
10	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **need** | present | a fight | two people |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme |
| 2 | **walk away** | present | one |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **happen** | can | the fight |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:371-walking-away.lesson:22`.

**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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