--- title: Pedals turn a chain wheel, the chain turns a cog on the back wheel,… — Bicycles and other wheels · tree and pragmatics description: Pedals turn a chain wheel, the chain turns a cog on the back wheel, and you balance by steering and moving forward; it is easier to balance when you go faster. Who acts: Pedals, chain, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pedals, chain, you), 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:7 # text = Pedals turn a chain wheel, the chain turns a cog on the back wheel, and you balance by steering and moving forward; it is easier to balance when you go faster. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Pedals pedal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cog cog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 balance balance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 by by SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 steering steer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 24 forward forward ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 balance balance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:ccomp 31 when when SCONJ WRB _ 33 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Pedals | a chain wheel | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | present | the chain | a cog | | the back wheel | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cog=Theme | | 3 | **balance** | present | you | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **steer** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **move forward** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | the chain *not said here* | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **balance** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **go** | present | you | | | | | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:7`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Bicycles and other wheels, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/6/) - next →: [Bicycles and other wheels, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/)