--- title: That is why a moving bike balances and a still one falls over, and w… — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics description: That is why a moving bike balances and a still one falls over, and why riding very slowly feels wobbly. Who acts: That, moving bike, one, riding. A sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike: why it stays up» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/1/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Riding a bike: why it stays up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/) / 1 # Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 1 That is why a moving bike balances and a still one falls over, and why riding very slowly feels wobbly. **Who acts:** That, moving bike, one, riding · **What happens:** be, move, balance, fall over, ride, feel This is a sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike: why it stays up» of the physics 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 (That, moving bike, one, riding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:009-riding-a-bike.lesson:1 # text = That is why a moving bike balances and a still one falls over, and why riding very slowly feels wobbly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 009-riding-a-bike.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 balances balance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 10 still still ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nsubj _ _ 12 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 over over ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 17 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 20 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **balance** | present | a moving bike | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fall over** | present | a one | | | | | over *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **ride** | gerund | | | | | | slowly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **feel** | present | riding | | | | | wobbly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:physics:009-riding-a-bike.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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: [Riding a bike: why it stays up, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/0/) - next →: [Riding a bike: why it stays up, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/)