--- title: Going somewhere and back means covering the distance twice. — Distances out and about · tree and pragmatics description: Going somewhere and back means covering the distance twice. Who acts: Going. A sentence of the lesson «Distances out and about» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/250-distances-out-and-about/1/) [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/) / [Distances out and about](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/250-distances-out-and-about/) / 1 # Distances out and about, sentence 1 Going somewhere and back means covering the distance twice. **Who acts:** Going · **What happens:** go, mean, cover · **To what, where:** distance · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Distances out and about» 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 (Going), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:250-distances-out-and-about.lesson:1 # text = Going somewhere and back means covering the distance twice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 250-distances-out-and-about.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 2 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 back back ADV RB _ 2 conj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 covering cover VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | somewhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Going | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **cover** *not said to happen* | gerund | Going *not said here* | the distance | | | | twice *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Destination | 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:250-distances-out-and-about.lesson:1`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Distances out and about, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/250-distances-out-and-about/0/) - next →: [Distances out and about, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/250-distances-out-and-about/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/250-distances-out-and-about/)