Bicycles and other wheels, sentence 18
Skateboard and scooter wheels spin easily because of bearings, rings of little steel balls; ride them with a helmet and pads, away from roads.
Who acts: Skateboard wheels · What happens: spin, ride · To what, where: battery
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 (Skateboard wheels), 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 | Skateboard | skateboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wheels | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 scooter | cc |
| 3 | scooter | scooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Skateboard | conj |
| 4 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spin | nsubj |
| 5 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 spin | advmod |
| 7 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 9 bearings | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 because | fixed |
| 9 | bearings | bearing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spin | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rings | punct |
| 11 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bearings | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 balls | case |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 balls | amod |
| 14 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 balls | compound |
| 15 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rings | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ride | punct |
| 17 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 spin | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ride | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 helmet | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 helmet | det |
| 21 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ride | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pads | cc |
| 23 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 helmet | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 away | punct |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 ride | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 roads | case |
| 27 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 away | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spin | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | Skateboard wheels | because bearings and rings of little steel balls; easily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | infinitive | battery | with a helmet and pads; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:18.
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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