--- title: Moving the chain to a bigger back cog makes pedalling easier but slo… — Bicycles and other wheels · tree and pragmatics description: Moving the chain to a bigger back cog makes pedalling easier but slower, good for hills; a smaller back cog makes it harder but faster. Who acts: Moving, smaller back cog. 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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 (Moving, smaller back cog), 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:8 # text = Moving the chain to a bigger back cog makes pedalling easier but slower, good for hills; a smaller back cog makes it harder but 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 7 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 cog cog NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 pedalling pedal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 11 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 obj _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 21 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 cog cog NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 xcomp _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | the chain | | a bigger back cog | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent chain=Theme to cog=Trajectory | | 2 | **make** | present | Moving | pedalling | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pedal=Product | | 3 | **make** | present | a smaller back cog | chain | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:8`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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/). - ← previous: [Bicycles and other wheels, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/7/) - next →: [Bicycles and other wheels, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/)