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title: On a bike, a level, buckled helmet and brakes that work matter more… — Swimming and cycling · tree and pragmatics
description: On a bike, a level, buckled helmet and brakes that work matter more than looking cool. Who acts: brakes, level. 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 every clause.
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# Swimming and cycling, sentence 5

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On a bike, a level, buckled helmet and brakes that work matter more than looking cool.

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**Who acts:** brakes, level · **What happens:** buckle, work, matter, look · **To what, where:** bike

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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 (brakes, level), 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:5
# text = On a bike, a level, buckled helmet and brakes that work matter more than looking cool.
# 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): no change
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	buckled	buckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	brakes	brake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	_
18	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **buckle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | present | brakes |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **matter** | present | a level |  |  | a bike |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | a level *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:5`.

**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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