Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 3

Stabilisers stop the bike tipping, so you never learn this steering, which is why balance bikes with no pedals teach children faster.

Who acts: Stabilisers, bike, you, balance bikes · What happens: stop, tip, not learn, be, teach · To what, where: bike, steering, balance bikes, children

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 (Stabilisers, bike, you, balance 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	Stabilisers	stabiliser	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bike	det
4	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
5	tipping	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bike	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 learn	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 learn	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 learn	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 learn	advmod
10	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stop	parataxis
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 steering	det
12	steering	steering	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 learn	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bikes	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 bikes	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bikes	cop
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 bikes	advmod
17	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bikes	compound
18	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 teach	nsubj
19	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 teach	mark
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 pedals	det
21	pedals	pedal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bikes	nmod
22	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 learn	advcl
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 teach	obj
24	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 teach	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stop	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Stabilisers	the bike			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bike=Eventuality
2	tip	gerund	the bike not said here				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not learn	infinitive	you	this steering			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steering=Topic
4	is a	present		balance bikes		no pedals nmod	tree rules
5	teach speech: other	present	balance bikes		children	fast property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient

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:3.

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. 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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