--- title: Gears are like the gears on a bike: low gears give a strong push to… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: Gears are like the gears on a bike: low gears give a strong push to start and climb hills, high gears let the wheels turn fast while the engine turns slowly. Who acts: Gears, low gears, high gears, wheels. 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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 (Gears, low gears, high gears, wheels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:017-inside-a-car.lesson:1 # text = Gears are like the gears on a bike: low gears give a strong push to start and climb hills, high gears let the wheels turn fast while the engine turns slowly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 017-inside-a-car.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Gears gear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 gears gear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 gears gear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:xcomp 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 gears gear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 33 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Gears | | | a bike | | like the gears | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | low gears | a strong push | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent push=Theme | | 3 | **start** | to-infinitive | low gears *not said here* | a strong push *not said here* | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **climb** | infinitive | low gears *not said here* | hills | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hill=Theme | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | high gears | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **turn** | infinitive | the wheels | | | | | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **turn** | present | the engine | | | | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:technology:017-inside-a-car.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/0/) - next →: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)