Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 6
The faster you go, the smaller the steering needed, so very slow riding is wobbly.
Who acts: you, steering, slow riding · What happens: go, need, be
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, steering, slow 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 faster | det |
| 2 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 go | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 needed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 smaller | det |
| 7 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 needed | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steering | det |
| 9 | steering | steering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 needed | nsubj |
| 10 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wobbly | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 wobbly | advmod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 slow | advmod |
| 14 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 riding | amod |
| 15 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wobbly | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wobbly | cop |
| 17 | wobbly | wobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 needed | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 needed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | you | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | past | the steering | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | present | slow riding | wobbly property | tree rules |
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:6.
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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