--- title: Wheels on cycles — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Wheels on cycles», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A unicycle has 1 wheel, a bicycle has 2 and a tricycle has 3: «uni» means one, «bi» two, «tri» three. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/219-wheels-on-cycles/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / Wheels on cycles # Wheels on cycles Lesson 219 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 4 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/219-wheels-on-cycles/0/) — A unicycle has 1 wheel, a bicycle has 2 and a tricycle has 3: «uni» means one, «bi» two, «tri» three. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/219-wheels-on-cycles/1/) — Count the wheels of each kind on its own, then add them. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/219-wheels-on-cycles/2/) — Pedals are not wheels: every one of them has 2 pedals. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/219-wheels-on-cycles/3/) — 4 bicycles, 2 tricycles and 3 unicycles: 4 × 2 = 8, 2 × 3 = 6, 3 × 1 = 3, and 8 + 6 + 3 = 17 wheels. - ← previous: [Fence around a square](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/218-fence-around-a-square/) - next →: [Riders on tandems and bicycles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/220-riders-on-tandems-and-bicycles/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)