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title: A bike lane gives bikes their own space; lanes separated by kerbs ke… — Bicycles and other wheels · tree and pragmatics
description: A bike lane gives bikes their own space; lanes separated by kerbs keep cars out, but riders still watch for opening car doors and turning vehicles. Who acts: bike lane, lanes, riders. A sentence of the lesson «Bicycles and other wheels» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Bicycles and other wheels, sentence 20

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A bike lane gives bikes their own space; lanes separated by kerbs keep cars out, but riders still watch for opening car doors and turning vehicles.

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**Who acts:** bike lane, lanes, riders · **What happens:** give, separate, keep out, watch, open, turn · **To what, where:** own space, bikes, lanes, cars, car doors, vehicles

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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 (bike lane, lanes, riders), 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:20
# text = A bike lane gives bikes their own space; lanes separated by kerbs keep cars out, but riders still watch for opening car doors and turning vehicles.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	bikes	bike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
10	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	kerbs	kerb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
28	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **give** | present | a bike lane | leans's own space | bikes |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bike=Recipient space=Theme |
| 2 | **separate** | participle |  | lanes *not said here* |  |  |  | by kerbs | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **keep out** | present | lanes | cars |  |  |  | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 4 | **watch** | present | riders |  |  |  | still |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **open** | gerund | riders *not said here* | car doors |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 6 | **turn** | gerund | riders *not said here* | vehicles |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent vehicle=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:20`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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