--- title: The big thigh muscles push the pedals down, and you stay balanced mo… — Swimming and cycling · tree and pragmatics description: The big thigh muscles push the pedals down, and you stay balanced mostly through tiny steering movements; moving forward makes balancing easier, and gears help on hills. Who acts: big thigh muscles, you, moving, gears. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/19/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Swimming and cycling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/) / 19 # Swimming and cycling, sentence 19 The big thigh muscles push the pedals down, and you stay balanced mostly through tiny steering movements; moving forward makes balancing easier, and gears help on hills. **Who acts:** big thigh muscles, you, moving, gears · **What happens:** push down, stay, move forward, make, balance, help · **To what, where:** pedals, hills 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 (big thigh muscles, you, moving, gears), 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:19 # text = The big thigh muscles push the pedals down, and you stay balanced mostly through tiny steering movements; moving forward makes balancing easier, and gears help on hills. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 thigh thigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pedals pedal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 down down ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 balanced balance ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 steering steering NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 21 forward forward ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 balancing balance VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 obj _ _ 24 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 gears gear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push down** | present | the big thigh muscles | the pedals | | | | down *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Theme | | 2 | **stay** | present | you | | | | | balance *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **move forward** | gerund | | | | | | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | moving | | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **balance** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **help** | present | gears | | | hills | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:19`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Swimming and cycling, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/17/) - next →: [Running, gymnastics and martial arts, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/43-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/)