--- title: A low gear turns the wheel less for each turn of the pedals, so you… — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics description: A low gear turns the wheel less for each turn of the pedals, so you push more gently but pedal more times up a hill; a high gear turns the wheel more for each turn, which is good for going fast on the flat. Who acts: low gear, you, high gear, turn. 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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 (low gear, you, high gear, turn), 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:11 # text = A low gear turns the wheel less for each turn of the pedals, so you push more gently but pedal more times up a hill; a high gear turns the wheel more for each turn, which is good for going fast on the flat. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 gear gear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj 7 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pedals pedal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 19 gently gently ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pedal pedal NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 up up ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 gear gear NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 for for SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 43 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ _ 44 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 flat flat NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | a low gear | the wheel | | | | for each turn of the pedals; less *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | | 2 | **push** | present | you | | | | time | gently *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | present | a high gear | the wheel | | | | for each turn | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | each turn | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | gerund | each turn *not said here* | | | the flat | | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on flat=Location | 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:11`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Riding a bike: why it stays up, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/10/) - next →: [Riding a bike: why it stays up, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/)