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title: A puncture is a hole that lets air out of the inner tube; dip the pu… — Bicycles and other wheels · tree and pragmatics
description: A puncture is a hole that lets air out of the inner tube; dip the pumped-up tube in water and bubbles show where the hole is, then it can be patched or the tube replaced. Who acts: puncture, hole, bubbles, tube. A sentence of the lesson «Bicycles and other wheels» of the technology course of Mova's 
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# Bicycles and other wheels, sentence 15

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A puncture is a hole that lets air out of the inner tube; dip the pumped-up tube in water and bubbles show where the hole is, then it can be patched or the tube replaced.

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**Who acts:** puncture, hole, bubbles, tube · **What happens:** be, let, dip, pump up, show, replace · **To what, where:** hole, air, inner tube, pumped tube, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (puncture, hole, bubbles, tube), 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:15
# text = A puncture is a hole that lets air out of the inner tube; dip the pumped-up tube in water and bubbles show where the hole is, then it can be patched or the tube replaced.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	puncture	puncture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	dip	dip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	pumped	pump	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=17:compound
20	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
24	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	patched	patch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:conj
39	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:acl
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a puncture | a hole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | present | a hole | air |  | the inner tube |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 3 | **dip** | infinitive | a puncture *not said here* | the pumped tube |  | water |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tube=Theme in water=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pump up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | present | bubbles |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | can · present · passive |  | the hole |  |  | then | patch *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **replace** | participle | the tube |  |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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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**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:025-bicycles-and-other-wheels.lesson:15`.

**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, R4-particle ×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/).

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