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title: Bike wheels can get stuck in tram rails, so cyclists cross them at a… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics
description: Bike wheels can get stuck in tram rails, so cyclists cross them at an angle. Who acts: Bike wheels, cyclists. A sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 10

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Bike wheels can get stuck in tram rails, so cyclists cross them at an angle.

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**Who acts:** Bike wheels, cyclists · **What happens:** get, cross · **To what, where:** wheels, angle

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology 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 (Bike wheels, cyclists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:10
# text = Bike wheels can get stuck in tram rails, so cyclists cross them at an angle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	tram	tram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rails	rail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	cyclists	cyclist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	angle	angle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | can | Bike wheels |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cross** | present | cyclists | wheels *= wheel* |  | a angle |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:10`.

**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): 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/).

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