Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 17
Riding no-hands works by leaning your body, but only at a decent speed on a smooth road, and never in traffic.
Who acts: Riding · What happens: ride, work, lean · To what, where: hands, body
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 (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 | Riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 works | csubj |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 hands | det |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 no | punct |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Riding | obj |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 leaning | mark |
| 7 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 works | advcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 body | nmod:poss |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaning | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 speed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 speed | cc |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 speed | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 speed | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 speed | det |
| 15 | decent | decent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 speed | amod |
| 16 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 19 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 road | amod |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 speed | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 traffic | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 traffic | cc |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 traffic | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 traffic | case |
| 25 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | gerund | no hands | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work | present | Riding | in traffic; at a decent speed on a smooth road | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at speed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lean | gerund | Riding not said here | your body | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=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:17.
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 ×2. 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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