Bicycles and other wheels, sentence 8
Moving the chain to a bigger back cog makes pedalling easier but slower, good for hills; a smaller back cog makes it harder but faster.
Who acts: Moving, smaller back cog · What happens: move, make · To what, where: chain, bigger back cog, pedalling
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 (Moving, smaller back cog), 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 | Moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 makes | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chain | det |
| 3 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moving | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 cog | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cog | det |
| 6 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 cog | amod |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cog | compound |
| 8 | cog | cog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moving | obl |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | pedalling | pedal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obj |
| 11 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 pedalling | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 good | cc |
| 13 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 easier | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slower | punct |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 makes | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 hills | case |
| 17 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 good | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 makes | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cog | det |
| 20 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 cog | amod |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cog | compound |
| 22 | cog | cog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 makes | nsubj |
| 23 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 makes | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 makes | obj |
| 25 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 makes | xcomp |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 faster | cc |
| 27 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 harder | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | the chain | a bigger back cog | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent chain=Theme to cog=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Moving | pedalling | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pedal=Product | ||||
| 3 | make | present | a smaller back cog | chain | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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: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, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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