Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 14
Mountain bikes have wide, knobbly tyres for grip on mud, and road bikes have thin, smooth ones for speed.
Who acts: Mountain bikes, road bikes · What happens: have · To what, where: wide knobbly tyres, thin smooth ones
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 (Mountain bikes, road bikes), 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 | Mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bikes | compound |
| 2 | bikes | bike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tyres | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wide | punct |
| 6 | knobbly | knobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tyres | amod |
| 7 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 grip | case |
| 9 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tyres | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 mud | case |
| 11 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grip | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bikes | compound |
| 15 | bikes | bike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 17 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ones | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thin | punct |
| 19 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ones | amod |
| 20 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 speed | case |
| 22 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ones | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | 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 | have | present | Mountain bikes | wide knobbly tyres | for grip on mud | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | road bikes | thin smooth ones | for speed | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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:14.
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): no change. 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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