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title: A motorbike leans into bends to turn; motorbikes are fast and hard t… — Bicycles and other wheels · tree and pragmatics
description: A motorbike leans into bends to turn; motorbikes are fast and hard to see, so look twice before crossing. Who acts: motorbike, leans. A sentence of the lesson «Bicycles and other wheels» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bicycles and other wheels, sentence 19

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A motorbike leans into bends to turn; motorbikes are fast and hard to see, so look twice before crossing.

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**Who acts:** motorbike, leans · **What happens:** lean, turn, be, see, look, cross · **To what, where:** bends

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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 (motorbike, leans), 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:19
# text = A motorbike leans into bends to turn; motorbikes are fast and hard to see, so look twice before crossing.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	motorbike	motorbike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound
3	leans	lean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bends	bend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	motorbikes	motorbike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
19	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** |  | a motorbike |  |  | bends |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | to-infinitive | a motorbike *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | leans and motorbikes |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | leans and motorbikes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | leans and motorbikes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **cross** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: 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:19`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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