Bicycles and other wheels, sentence 3
While moving, you keep steering the front wheel a tiny bit towards the side you are falling to, which brings the wheels back under you; the faster you go, the easier these small corrections are.
Who acts: you, small corrections · What happens: move, keep, steer, fall, bring, go · To what, where: front wheel, side, wheels
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, small corrections), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 moving | mark |
| 2 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 keep | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 steering | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 falling | parataxis |
| 6 | steering | steer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wheel | det |
| 8 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wheel | amod |
| 9 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steering | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bit | amod |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steering | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steering | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 falling | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 falling | aux |
| 18 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 brings | mark |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brings | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 brings | nsubj |
| 22 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 falling | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wheels | det |
| 24 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brings | obj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 brings | advmod |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 back | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 easier | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 faster | det |
| 30 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 easier | advcl |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 go | nsubj |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 faster | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 faster | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 easier | det |
| 35 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 brings | conj |
| 36 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 corrections | det |
| 37 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 corrections | amod |
| 38 | corrections | correction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 easier | nsubj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 easier | cop |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 falling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | you not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | steer | gerund | you not said here | the front wheel | the side | a tiny bit obl:unmarked | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme towards side=Destination | ||
| 4 | fall | present · progressive | you | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring | present | the wheels | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | present | this small corrections | easy 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:technology:025-bicycles-and-other-wheels.lesson:3.
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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