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title: A tandem is a bicycle made for two: it has 2 seats, one behind the o… — Riders on tandems and bicycles · tree and pragmatics
description: A tandem is a bicycle made for two: it has 2 seats, one behind the other, and 2 wheels like an ordinary bicycle. Who acts: tandem. A sentence of the lesson «Riders on tandems and bicycles» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Riders on tandems and bicycles, sentence 0

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A tandem is a bicycle made for two: it has 2 seats, one behind the other, and 2 wheels like an ordinary bicycle.

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**Who acts:** tandem · **What happens:** be, make, have · **To what, where:** bicycle, 2 seats

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Riders on tandems and bicycles» of the lessons 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 (tandem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:220-riders-on-tandems-and-bicycles.lesson:0
# text = A tandem is a bicycle made for two: it has 2 seats, one behind the other, and 2 wheels like an ordinary bicycle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 220-riders-on-tandems-and-bicycles.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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tandem	tandem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a tandem | a bicycle and 2 wheels like a ordinary bicycle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a bicycle and 2 wheels like a ordinary bicycle *not said here* |  |  |  | for two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for two=Asset |
| 3 | **have** | present | tandem | 2 seats |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient |

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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:lessons:220-riders-on-tandems-and-bicycles.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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