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title: Change gears while pedalling gently. — Bicycles and other wheels · tree and pragmatics
description: Change gears while pedalling gently. Who acts: you. 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 9

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Change gears while pedalling gently.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** change, pedal · **To what, where:** gears

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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 (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:9
# text = Change gears while pedalling gently.
# 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): no change
1	Change	change	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	gears	gear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	pedalling	pedal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | imperative | you *not said here* | gears |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Patient |
| 2 | **pedal** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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:9`.

**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): no change. **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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