Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 13
Big wheels roll over bumps easily, and thin, smooth tyres rub the road less.
Who acts: Big wheels, thin smooth tyres · What happens: roll, rub · To what, where: bumps, road
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 (Big wheels, thin smooth tyres), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wheels | amod |
| 2 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roll | nsubj |
| 3 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 bumps | case |
| 5 | bumps | bump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roll | obl |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 3 roll | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rub | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rub | cc |
| 9 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tyres | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thin | punct |
| 11 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tyres | amod |
| 12 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rub | nsubj |
| 13 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 roll | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rub | obj |
| 16 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 rub | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roll | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present | Big wheels | bumps | easily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bump=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | rub | present | thin smooth tyres | the road | less property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
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:13.
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 ×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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