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title: The safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain came in the 188… — Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses… · tree and pragmatics
description: The safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain came in the 1880s and let many women travel alone for the first time. Who acts: safety bicycle, many women. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» of the history course of Mova's primary sch
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# Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 23

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The safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain came in the 1880s and let many women travel alone for the first time.

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**Who acts:** safety bicycle, many women · **What happens:** come, let, travel · **To what, where:** 1880s, many women

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» of the history 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 (safety bicycle, many women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:23
# text = The safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain came in the 1880s and let many women travel alone for the first time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	1880s	1880	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain |  |  | the 1880s |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1880=Location |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | the safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain *not said here* | many women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **travel** | infinitive | many women *not said here* |  |  |  | time | alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:history:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:23`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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