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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 people | nummod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walk | nsubj |
| 3 | 1200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 m | nummod |
| 4 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 people | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 4 m | advmod |
| 6 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 walk | obl |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 50 | case |
| 11 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 walk | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 minute | cc |
| 13 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 m | nummod |
| 14 | m | m | NOUN | _ | 16 minute | compound |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 minute | det |
| 16 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 50 | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 meet | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 meet | nsubj |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 walk | parataxis |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 1200 | case |
| 21 | 1200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 meet | obl |
| 22 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 21 1200 | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 50 | punct |
| 24 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 1200 | appos |
| 25 | + | + | SYM | _ | 26 70 | cc |
| 26 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 50 | conj |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 50 | punct |
| 28 | = | = | SYM | _ | 21 1200 | punct |
| 29 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 minutes | nummod |
| 30 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 1200 | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
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, 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.
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