Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 12

If you squeeze only the front brake hard, the front wheel stops but your body keeps going, so use both brakes and sit back on steep hills.

Who acts: you, front wheel, body · What happens: squeeze, stop, keep, go, use, sit back · To what, where: front brake, brakes, steep hills

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 (you, front wheel, body), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 squeeze	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 squeeze	nsubj
3	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 brake	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brake	det
6	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brake	amod
7	brake	brake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeeze	obj
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 squeeze	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stops	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wheel	det
11	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wheel	amod
12	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stops	nsubj
13	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 squeeze	conj
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 keeps	cc
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 body	nmod:poss
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keeps	nsubj
17	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stops	conj
18	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 keeps	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 use	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 use	advmod
21	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 keeps	parataxis
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 brakes	det
23	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 use	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sit	cc
25	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 use	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 sit	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 hills	case
28	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hills	amod
29	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sit	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stops	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squeeze	present	you	the front brake		hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brake=Theme
2	stop	present	the front wheel				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	keep	present	your body				tree rules
4	go	gerund	your body not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	use	infinitive		both brakes			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brake=Patient
6	sit back	infinitive			steep hills		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location

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:12.

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 ×2, R2-punct-next ×1, 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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