--- title: If a front wheel starts to wobble at high speed downhill, grip light… — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics description: If a front wheel starts to wobble at high speed downhill, grip lightly, press a knee on the frame and slow down gently. Who acts: front wheel, you. 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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 (front wheel, you), 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:16 # text = If a front wheel starts to wobble at high speed downhill, grip lightly, press a knee on the frame and slow down gently. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 wobble wobble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 downhill downhill ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 grip grip VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 14 lightly lightly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 16 press press VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 frame frame NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 slow slow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 24 down down ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 gently gently ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a front wheel | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **wobble** | to-infinitive | a front wheel *not said here* | | | high speed | | downhill *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | | 3 | **grip** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | lightly *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **press** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a knee | | the frame | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Theme | | 5 | **slow down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | gently *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:16`. **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 ×2. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/15/) - next →: [Riding a bike: why it stays up, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/)