Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 8
Scientists found that no single magic trick keeps a bike up; it is the bike's shape and weight together.
Who acts: Scientists, single magic trick, trick · What happens: find, keep up, be · To what, where: bike, shape · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Scientists, single magic trick, trick), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 keeps | mark |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 trick | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trick | amod |
| 6 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trick | compound |
| 7 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeps | nsubj |
| 8 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bike | det |
| 10 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeps | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 keeps | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 shape | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shape | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 shape | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bike | det |
| 16 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shape | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 bike | case |
| 18 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 weight | cc |
| 20 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shape | conj |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 shape | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | 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 | find | past | Scientists | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep up | present | no single magic trick | a bike | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bike=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | trick | the bike's shape and weight | together 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:8.
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 ×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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