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title: On a bike, the back wheel turns as many times for each turn of the p… — Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: On a bike, the back wheel turns as many times for each turn of the pedals as the back cog's teeth fit into the chain wheel's teeth: a 40-tooth chain wheel with a 20-tooth back cog turns the back wheel twice for every pedal turn. Who acts: back wheel, teeth, chain wheel. A sentence of the lesson «Oly
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# Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★, sentence 6

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On a bike, the back wheel turns as many times for each turn of the pedals as the back cog's teeth fit into the chain wheel's teeth: a 40-tooth chain wheel with a 20-tooth back cog turns the back wheel twice for every pedal turn.

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**Who acts:** back wheel, teeth, chain wheel · **What happens:** turn, fit · **To what, where:** bike, teeth, back wheel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» 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 (back wheel, teeth, chain wheel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:6
# text = On a bike, the back wheel turns as many times for each turn of the pedals as the back cog's teeth fit into the chain wheel's teeth: a 40-tooth chain wheel with a 20-tooth back cog turns the back wheel twice for every pedal turn.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
6	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pedals	pedal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	cog	cog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl:relcl
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
33	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
40	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	_
42	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
43	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
44	cog	cog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
45	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	45	advmod	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	53	det	_	_
52	pedal	pedal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45: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 | **turn** | present | the back wheel |  |  | a bike | time | for each turn of the pedals | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on bike=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fit** | present | the back cog's teeth |  |  | the chain wheel's teeth |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into tooth=Destination |
| 3 | **turn** | present | a chain wheel with a tooth back cog | the back wheel |  |  |  | for every pedal turn; twice *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=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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**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 ×4, 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.

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