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title: Riding no-hands works by leaning your body, but only at a decent spe… — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics
description: Riding no-hands works by leaning your body, but only at a decent speed on a smooth road, and never in traffic. Who acts: 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 every clause.
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# Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 17

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Riding no-hands works by leaning your body, but only at a decent speed on a smooth road, and never in traffic.

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**Who acts:** Riding · **What happens:** ride, work, lean · **To what, where:** hands, body

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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 (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:17
# text = Riding no-hands works by leaning your body, but only at a decent speed on a smooth road, and never in traffic.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:compound
5	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | gerund |  | no hands |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | present | Riding |  |  |  |  | in traffic; at a decent speed on a smooth road | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at speed=Theme |
| 3 | **lean** | gerund | Riding *not said here* | your body |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme |

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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.

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**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:17`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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