Bicycles and other wheels, sentence 11

Use both brakes, the front one gently: squeezing only the front brake hard can throw you over the handlebars.

Who acts: you · What happens: use, squeezing, throw · To what, where: brakes, front brake, you, handlebars

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bicycles and other wheels» of the technology 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), 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	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 brakes	det
3	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brakes	nmod
8	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Use	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 squeezing	punct
10	squeezing	squeezing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 throw	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 brake	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brake	det
13	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brake	amod
14	brake	brake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 squeezing	obj
15	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 squeezing	advmod
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 throw	aux
17	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Use	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 throw	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 handlebars	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 handlebars	det
21	handlebars	handlebar	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 throw	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	both brakes the front one		gently property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brake=Patient
2	squeezing	gerund		the front brake		hard property	tree rules
3	throw	can		you	the handlebars		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme over handlebar=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:technology:025-bicycles-and-other-wheels.lesson:11.

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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