Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 7

A riderless bike pushed along can roll a long way upright, because the shape and weight of the bike make it steer into a lean by itself.

Who acts: riderless bike, shape, way · What happens: push along, roll, make, steer · To what, where: long way, way, lean

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 (riderless bike, shape, way), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bike	det
2	riderless	riderless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bike	amod
3	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	nsubj
4	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 pushed	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 roll	aux
7	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pushed	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roll	obj
11	upright	upright	ADV	_	7 roll	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 make	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shape	det
15	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 weight	cc
17	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shape	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 bike	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bike	det
20	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shape	nmod
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 roll	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	obj
23	steer	steer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	xcomp
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 lean	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lean	det
26	lean	lean	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 steer	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 itself	case
28	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 steer	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 roll	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push along	past	a riderless bike			along property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	roll	can	a riderless bike not said here	a long way		upright property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Agent
3	make	present	the shape of the bike and weight	way			tree rules
4	steer	infinitive	way not said here		a lean	by shape	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into lean=Destination

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:7.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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