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title: A dog that runs between them at 200 m a minute all that time runs 20… — The dog that runs back and forth · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog that runs between them at 200 m a minute all that time runs 200 × 10 = 2000 m, however many times it turns. Who acts: dog. 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 of every clause.
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# The dog that runs back and forth, sentence 3

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A dog that runs between them at 200 m a minute all that time runs 200 × 10 = 2000 m, however many times it turns.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** run, turn · **To what, where:** 200 m, 200 10 2000 m

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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 (dog), 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:3
# text = A dog that runs between them at 200 m a minute all that time runs 200 × 10 = 2000 m, however many times it turns.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound
9	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:Abbr=Yes|NumForm=Word|NumType=Card
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
17	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	21	punct	_	_
18	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	20	case	_	_
20	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
21	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	however	however	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **run** | present | a dog | 200 m  a minute |  |  | time | between people | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Trajectory |
| 2 | **run** | present | a dog | 200 10 2000 m |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme m=Trajectory |
| 3 | **turn** | present | dog |  |  |  | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:lessons:170-the-dog-between-two-walkers.lesson:3`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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