In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 2

Front airbags open with great force; they protect adults but can badly hurt children, and a baby in a rear-facing seat must never sit in front of an active airbag.

Who acts: Front airbags, baby · What happens: protect, hurt, face, not sit · To what, where: adults, children, front

This is a sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday 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 (Front airbags, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 airbags	amod
2	airbags	airbag	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 protect	nsubj
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 airbags	amod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 force	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 force	amod
6	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 open	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 protect	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 protect	nsubj
9	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 protect	obj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 hurt	cc
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hurt	aux
13	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 hurt	advmod
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 protect	conj
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hurt	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sit	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sit	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 baby	det
19	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sit	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	25 seat	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 seat	det
22	rear	rear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 facing	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 rear	punct
24	facing	face	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 seat	amod
25	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 baby	nmod
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sit	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 sit	advmod
28	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 protect	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 front	case
30	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sit	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 airbag	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 airbag	det
33	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 airbag	amod
34	airbag	airbag	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 front	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 protect	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	protect	present	Front airbags		adults			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Beneficiary
2	hurt	can	Front airbags not said here	children			badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Patient
3	face	gerund						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	not sit	must	a baby in a facing seat			front of a active airbag		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location

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, 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:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:2.

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): R7-rel-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.

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