--- title: Stabilisers stop the bike tipping, so you never learn this steering,… — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics description: Stabilisers stop the bike tipping, so you never learn this steering, which is why balance bikes with no pedals teach children faster. Who acts: Stabilisers, bike, you, balance bikes. A sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike: why it stays up» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Riding a bike: why it stays up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/) / 3 # Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 3 Stabilisers stop the bike tipping, so you never learn this steering, which is why balance bikes with no pedals teach children faster. **Who acts:** Stabilisers, bike, you, balance bikes · **What happens:** stop, tip, not learn, be, teach · **To what, where:** bike, steering, balance bikes, children 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 (Stabilisers, bike, you, balance bikes), 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:3 # text = Stabilisers stop the bike tipping, so you never learn this steering, which is why balance bikes with no pedals teach children faster. # 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 ×2 1 Stabilisers stabiliser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 tipping tip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 steering steering NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bikes bike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 19 with with SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 pedals pedal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 22 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **stop** | present | Stabilisers | the bike | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bike=Eventuality | | 2 | **tip** | gerund | the bike *not said here* | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **learn** | infinitive | you | this steering | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steering=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | | balance bikes | | | | no pedals *nmod* | tree rules | | 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | balance bikes | | children | | | fast *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | 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:3`. **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 ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/2/) - next →: [Riding a bike: why it stays up, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/)