Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 9
Stabilisers stop the bike tipping, so children never practise steering into a lean, while balance bikes teach that steering first.
Who acts: Stabilisers, children, balance bikes · What happens: stop, not practise, steer, teach · To what, where: bike tipping, lean · 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 (Stabilisers, children, 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 | 5 tipping | det |
| 4 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tipping | compound |
| 5 | tipping | tipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stop | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 practise | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 practise | advmod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 practise | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 practise | advmod |
| 10 | practise | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stop | parataxis |
| 11 | steering | steer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 practise | advcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 lean | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lean | det |
| 14 | lean | lean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 steering | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 teach | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 teach | mark |
| 17 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bikes | compound |
| 18 | bikes | bike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 teach | nsubj |
| 19 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 practise | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 steering | mark |
| 21 | steering | steer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 teach | ccomp |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 steering | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | 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 | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Stabilisers | the bike tipping | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tipping=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not practise | infinitive | children | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | steer | gerund | children not said here | a lean | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into lean=Destination | ||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | present | balance bikes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | steer | gerund | first property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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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