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title: A boy in Florida rode his bike without a helmet down a hill; he hit… — Riding a bike or a scooter safely · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Florida rode his bike without a helmet down a hill; he hit a crack in the path, flew over the handlebars and hurt his head so badly he needed hospital for many days. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike or a scooter safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school w
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# Riding a bike or a scooter safely, sentence 5

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A boy in Florida rode his bike without a helmet down a hill; he hit a crack in the path, flew over the handlebars and hurt his head so badly he needed hospital for many days.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** ride, hit, fly, hurt, need · **To what, where:** bike, hill, crack, path, handlebars, head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike or a scooter safely» of the everyday 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 (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:005-bikes-and-scooters.lesson:5
# text = A boy in Florida rode his bike without a helmet down a hill; he hit a crack in the path, flew over the handlebars and hurt his head so badly he needed hospital for many days.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 005-bikes-and-scooters.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	handlebars	handlebar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
35	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | a boy in Florida | boy's bike |  | a hill |  | without a helmet | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bike=Theme down hill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hit** | past | boy | a crack |  | the path |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent crack=Theme in path=Destination |
| 3 | **fly** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  | the handlebars |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over handlebar=Location |
| 4 | **hurt** | past | boy *not said here* | boy's head |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Patient |
| 5 | **need** | past | boy | hospital |  |  | day |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hospital=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:005-bikes-and-scooters.lesson:5`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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