--- title: Two people 1200 m apart walk towards each other at 50 and 70 m a min… — The dog that runs back and forth · tree and pragmatics description: Two people 1200 m apart walk towards each other at 50 and 70 m a minute: they meet after 1200 / (50 + 70) = 10 minutes. Who acts: Two people, people. A sentence of the lesson «The dog that runs back and forth» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/170-the-dog-between-two-walkers/2/) [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/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / [The dog that runs back and forth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/170-the-dog-between-two-walkers/) / 2 # The dog that runs back and forth, sentence 2 Two people 1200 m apart walk towards each other at 50 and 70 m a minute: they meet after 1200 / (50 + 70) = 10 minutes. **Who acts:** Two people, people · **What happens:** walk, meet · **To what, where:** 50 This is a sentence of the lesson «The dog that runs back and forth» of the lessons 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 (Two people, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:170-the-dog-between-two-walkers.lesson:2 # text = Two people 1200 m apart walk towards each other at 50 and 70 m a minute: they meet after 1200 / (50 + 70) = 10 minutes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 170-the-dog-between-two-walkers.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 1200 1200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 m m NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 apart apart ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 towards towards ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 6 obl _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 fixed _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 m m NOUN NN _ 16 compound _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 20 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 1200 1200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 22 / / PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 appos _ _ 25 + + SYM SYM _ 26 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod 26 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 28 = = SYM SYM _ 21 punct _ _ 29 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **walk** | present | Two people 1200 m | | | 50 and a m minute | | towards each | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards each=Destination | | 2 | **meet** | present | people | | | | after 1200 and 10 minutes | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:lessons:170-the-dog-between-two-walkers.lesson:2`. **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 ×3, 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: [The dog that runs back and forth, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/170-the-dog-between-two-walkers/1/) - next →: [The dog that runs back and forth, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/170-the-dog-between-two-walkers/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/170-the-dog-between-two-walkers/)