Bikes, scooters and car parks, sentence 0
A helmet protects only if it fits: snug, level on the head, just above the eyebrows, with the strap buckled — a loose helmet slides off when you need it.
Who acts: helmet, strap, loose helmet, you · What happens: protect, fit, buckle, slide off, need · To what, where: snug, head, eyebrows, helmet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bikes, scooters and car parks» 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 (helmet, strap, loose helmet, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 helmet | det |
| 2 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 protects | nsubj |
| 3 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 fits | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 fits | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fits | nsubj |
| 7 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 protects | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 snug | punct |
| 9 | snug | snug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fits | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 snug | punct |
| 11 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snug | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snug | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eyebrows | punct |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 eyebrows | advmod |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 eyebrows | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eyebrows | det |
| 19 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 snug | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 strap | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 strap | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 strap | det |
| 23 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 buckled | nsubj |
| 24 | buckled | buckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 eyebrows | acl:relcl |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 slides | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 helmet | det |
| 27 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 helmet | amod |
| 28 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 slides | nsubj |
| 29 | slides | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 protects | parataxis |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 slides | compound:prt |
| 31 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 need | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 need | nsubj |
| 33 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 slides | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 need | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 protects | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present | a helmet | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fit a condition, not said to happen | present | helmet | snug and level and the eyebrows | the head | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent snug=Theme on head=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | buckle | participle | the strap | the eyebrows not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyebrow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | slide off | present | a loose helmet | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | need | present | you | helmet | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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, 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:272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.lesson:0.
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, R6-punct-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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