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title: Your feet push the pedals, the pedals turn the big chain wheel, the… — Bicycles and other wheels · tree and pragmatics
description: Your feet push the pedals, the pedals turn the big chain wheel, the chain turns a small cog on the back wheel, and the back wheel pushes the bike forward. Who acts: feet, pedals, chain, back wheel. A sentence of the lesson «Bicycles and other wheels» of the technology course of Mova's primary school
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# Bicycles and other wheels, sentence 1

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Your feet push the pedals, the pedals turn the big chain wheel, the chain turns a small cog on the back wheel, and the back wheel pushes the bike forward.

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**Who acts:** feet, pedals, chain, back wheel · **What happens:** push, turn · **To what, where:** pedals, big chain wheel, small cog, back wheel, bike

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bicycles and other wheels» 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 (feet, pedals, chain, back wheel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:025-bicycles-and-other-wheels.lesson:1
# text = Your feet push the pedals, the pedals turn the big chain wheel, the chain turns a small cog on the back wheel, and the back wheel pushes the bike forward.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 025-bicycles-and-other-wheels.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	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pedals	pedal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pedals	pedal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cog	cog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **push** | present | Your feet | the pedals |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the pedals | the big chain wheel |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | present | the chain | a small cog |  | the back wheel |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cog=Theme |
| 4 | **push** | present | the back wheel | the bike |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=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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**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/).

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