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title: An electric bike has a battery and motor that help while you pedal;… — Bicycles and other wheels · tree and pragmatics
description: An electric bike has a battery and motor that help while you pedal; in the UK the motor must stop helping at about 15.5 mph (25 km/h). Who acts: electric bike, battery, you, motor. A sentence of the lesson «Bicycles and other wheels» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Bicycles and other wheels, sentence 16

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An electric bike has a battery and motor that help while you pedal; in the UK the motor must stop helping at about 15.5 mph (25 km/h).

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**Who acts:** electric bike, battery, you, motor · **What happens:** have, help, pedal, stop · **To what, where:** battery, UK, 15.5

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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 (electric bike, battery, you, motor), 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:16
# text = An electric bike has a battery and motor that help while you pedal; in the UK the motor must stop helping at about 15.5 mph (25 km/h).
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pedal	pedal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
22	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	15.5	15.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
26	mph	mph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
28	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	km/h	km/h	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod:unmarked
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a electric bike | a battery and motor |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | present | a battery and motor |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pedal** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stop** | must | the motor |  |  | the UK |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **help** | gerund | the motor *not said here* |  |  | 15.5  mph |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:16`.

**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, R7-rel-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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