--- title: Riders on tandems and bicycles — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Riders on tandems and bicycles», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A tandem is a bicycle made for two: it has 2 seats, one behind the other, and 2 wheels like an ordinary bicycle. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/220-riders-on-tandems-and-bicycles/) [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/) / Riders on tandems and bicycles # Riders on tandems and bicycles Lesson 220 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 3 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/220-riders-on-tandems-and-bicycles/0/) — A tandem is a bicycle made for two: it has 2 seats, one behind the other, and 2 wheels like an ordinary bicycle. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/220-riders-on-tandems-and-bicycles/1/) — If some riders are on full tandems and the rest ride a bicycle each, first find how many ride alone. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/220-riders-on-tandems-and-bicycles/2/) — 13 riders, 4 full tandems: 4 × 2 = 8 ride tandems, 13 − 8 = 5 ride bicycles, so 4 + 5 = 9 cycles and 9 × 2 = 18 wheels. - ← previous: [Wheels on cycles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/219-wheels-on-cycles/) - next →: [Days and weeks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/221-days-and-weeks/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)