--- title: Cyclists lean into a corner to balance the sideways push of the grou… — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics description: Cyclists lean into a corner to balance the sideways push of the ground on their tyres; turning sharply without leaning makes you fall outwards, and leaning hard while going very slowly tips you over inwards. Who acts: Cyclists, turning, you, leaning. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cyclists, turning, you, leaning), 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:10 # text = Cyclists lean into a corner to balance the sideways push of the ground on their tyres; turning sharply without leaning makes you fall outwards, and leaning hard while going very slowly tips you over inwards. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Cyclists cyclist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lean lean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 balance balance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sideways sideway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 compound _ _ 10 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 19 sharply sharply ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 without without SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 advcl _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 outwards outward ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 csubj _ _ 29 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 32 very very ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 tips tip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 over over ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 37 inwards inwards ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lean** | present | Cyclists | | | a corner | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **balance** | to-infinitive | Cyclists *not said here* | the sideways push of the ground on Cyclists's tyres | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location push=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | gerund | | | | | | sharply *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lean** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | turning | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fall** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | outward *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **lean** | gerund | | | | | | hard *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | slowly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **tip over** | present | leaning | you | | | | inwards *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 10 | **push** | | the ground on Cyclists's tyres | | | | | | nom push «act intransitive»: of=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:physics:009-riding-a-bike.lesson:10`. **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. **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, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/9/) - next →: [Riding a bike: why it stays up, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/)