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title: If some riders are on full tandems and the rest ride a bicycle each,… — Riders on tandems and bicycles · tree and pragmatics
description: If some riders are on full tandems and the rest ride a bicycle each, first find how many ride alone. Who acts: riders, you. 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 1

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If some riders are on full tandems and the rest ride a bicycle each, first find how many ride alone.

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**Who acts:** riders, you · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** many ride

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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 (riders, you), 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:1
# text = If some riders are on full tandems and the rest ride a bicycle each, first find how many ride alone.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tandems	tandem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | some riders |  |  |  |  | ride *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | many ride |  |  |  | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Topic |

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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:1`.

**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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