--- title: If you squeeze only the front brake hard, the front wheel stops but… — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics description: If you squeeze only the front brake hard, the front wheel stops but your body keeps going, so use both brakes and sit back on steep hills. Who acts: you, front wheel, body. 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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 (you, front wheel, body), 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:12 # text = If you squeeze only the front brake hard, the front wheel stops but your body keeps going, so use both brakes and sit back on steep hills. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 squeeze squeeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 brake brake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 22 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 brakes brake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 25 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 steep steep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **squeeze** | present | you | the front brake | | | | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brake=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | present | the front wheel | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **keep** | present | your body | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | gerund | your body *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **use** | infinitive | | both brakes | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brake=Patient | | 6 | **sit back** | infinitive | | | | steep hills | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=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:12`. **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, R2-punct-next ×1, 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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/11/) - next →: [Riding a bike: why it stays up, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/)