Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 1
That is why a moving bike balances and a still one falls over, and why riding very slowly feels wobbly.
Who acts: That, moving bike, one, riding · What happens: be, move, balance, fall over, ride, feel
This is a sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike: why it stays up» of the physics 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 (That, moving bike, one, riding), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bike | det |
| 5 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 bike | amod |
| 6 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 balances | nsubj |
| 7 | balances | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 falls | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 falls | nsubj |
| 12 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 balances | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 falls | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feels | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feels | cc |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 feels | advmod |
| 17 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 feels | csubj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 slowly | advmod |
| 19 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 17 riding | advmod |
| 20 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 balances | conj |
| 21 | wobbly | wobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feels | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | balance | present | a moving bike | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall over | present | a one | over property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ride | gerund | slowly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | feel | present | riding | wobbly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:physics:009-riding-a-bike.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): R5-strong ×2, 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.
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