--- title: Roads need more than balance: lights after dark, ears free of music,… — Bike helmets and roads · tree and pragmatics description: Roads need more than balance: lights after dark, ears free of music, never riding out between parked cars, never riding up beside a lorry, and brakes checked before every ride; Bikeability training teaches road riding on real roads. Who acts: Roads, Bikeability training. A sentence of the lesson «Bi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/72-bike-helmets-and-roads/3/) [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/) / [Bike helmets and roads](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/72-bike-helmets-and-roads/) / 3 # Bike helmets and roads, sentence 3 Roads need more than balance: lights after dark, ears free of music, never riding out between parked cars, never riding up beside a lorry, and brakes checked before every ride; Bikeability training teaches road riding on real roads. **Who acts:** Roads, Bikeability training · **What happens:** need, not ride out, park, not ride up, check, teach · **To what, where:** more, brakes, lorry, ride, road riding, real roads 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 (Roads, Bikeability training), 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:3 # text = Roads need more than balance: lights after dark, ears free of music, never riding out between parked cars, never riding up beside a lorry, and brakes checked before every ride; Bikeability training teaches road riding on real roads. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 2 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 4 than than ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod 12 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 between between ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 parked park VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 beside beside ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 brakes brake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 32 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 before before ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 37 Bikeability bikeability NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 40 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 riding riding NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Roads | more | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | | 2 | **not** **ride out** | gerund | | | | | | between parked cars | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **park** | participle | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **ride up** | gerund | | brakes | | a lorry | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **check** | participle | | brakes *not said here* | | every ride | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before ride=Location | | 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Bikeability training | road riding | | real roads | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent riding=Recipient | 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:072-bike-helmets-and-roads.lesson:3`. **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): R5-strong ×3, 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: [Bike helmets and roads, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/72-bike-helmets-and-roads/2/) - next →: [Bike helmets and roads, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/72-bike-helmets-and-roads/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/72-bike-helmets-and-roads/)