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title: Feet can't stop a bike at speed; brakes, tyres and chain should be c… — Bike helmets and roads · tree and pragmatics
description: Feet can't stop a bike at speed; brakes, tyres and chain should be checked before every ride, and a bike with a broken brake isn't ridden. Who acts: Feet. A sentence of the lesson «Bike helmets and roads» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Bike helmets and roads, sentence 17

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Feet can't stop a bike at speed; brakes, tyres and chain should be checked before every ride, and a bike with a broken brake isn't ridden.

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**Who acts:** Feet · **What happens:** not stop, check, break, not ride · **To what, where:** bike, speed, brakes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bike helmets and roads» 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 (Feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:072-bike-helmets-and-roads.lesson:17
# text = Feet can't stop a bike at speed; brakes, tyres and chain should be checked before every ride, and a bike with a broken brake isn't ridden.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 072-bike-helmets-and-roads.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	brakes	brake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
14	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
28	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **stop** | can | Feet | a bike |  | speed |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bike=Eventuality |
| 2 | **check** | should · passive |  | brakes and tyres and chain |  |  | before every ride |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **ride** | present · passive |  | a bike with a broken brake |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:072-bike-helmets-and-roads.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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