--- title: A riderless bike pushed along can roll a long way upright, because t… — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics description: A riderless bike pushed along can roll a long way upright, because the shape and weight of the bike make it steer into a lean by itself. Who acts: riderless bike, shape, way. A sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike: why it stays up» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Riding a bike: why it stays up, sentence 7 A riderless bike pushed along can roll a long way upright, because the shape and weight of the bike make it steer into a lean by itself. **Who acts:** riderless bike, shape, way · **What happens:** push along, roll, make, steer · **To what, where:** long way, way, lean 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 (riderless bike, shape, way), 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:7 # text = A riderless bike pushed along can roll a long way upright, because the shape and weight of the bike make it steer into a lean by itself. # 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 ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 riderless riderless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 along along ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 upright upright ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 steer steer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lean lean NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push along** | past | a riderless bike | | | | | along *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **roll** | can | a riderless bike *not said here* | a long way | | | | upright *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | the shape of the bike and weight | way | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **steer** | infinitive | way *not said here* | | | a lean | | by shape | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into lean=Destination | 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:7`. **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 ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/6/) - next →: [Riding a bike: why it stays up, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/)