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title: Worn brake pads or loose cables mean you can't stop in time; the ABC… — Swimming and cycling · tree and pragmatics
description: Worn brake pads or loose cables mean you can't stop in time; the ABC check is Air in the tyres, Brakes and Chain. Who acts: Worn brake pads, you, ABC check. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Swimming and cycling, sentence 17

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Worn brake pads or loose cables mean you can't stop in time; the ABC check is Air in the tyres, Brakes and Chain.

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**Who acts:** Worn brake pads, you, ABC check · **What happens:** mean, not stop, be · **To what, where:** Air, tyres · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine 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 (Worn brake pads, you, ABC check), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:042-swimming-and-cycling.lesson:17
# text = Worn brake pads or loose cables mean you can't stop in time; the ABC check is Air in the tyres, Brakes and Chain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 042-swimming-and-cycling.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cables	cable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	ABC	ABC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	Air	Air	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Brakes	brake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **mean** | present | Worn brake pads or loose cables |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **stop** | can | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the ABC check | Air |  | the tyres |  |  | tree rules |

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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:medicine:042-swimming-and-cycling.lesson:17`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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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