Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 16

A bike helmet must fit snugly, sit level just above the eyebrows and have the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect.

Who acts: bike helmet, strap, loose helmet · What happens: fit, sit, have, buckle, not protect · To what, where: eyebrows, strap

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» 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 (bike helmet, strap, loose helmet), 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	3 helmet	det
2	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helmet	compound
3	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fit	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	aux
5	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	snugly	snugly	ADV	_	5 fit	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sit	punct
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fit	conj
9	level	level	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sit	xcomp
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 eyebrows	advmod
11	above	above	ADP	_	13 eyebrows	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eyebrows	det
13	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sit	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fit	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strap	det
17	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	buckled	buckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 have	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 protect	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 helmet	det
21	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 helmet	amod
22	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 protect	nsubj
23	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 protect	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 protect	advmod
25	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fit	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fit	must	a bike helmet			snugly property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	sit	infinitive	a bike helmet not said here		the eyebrows	level property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above eyebrow=Location
3	have	infinitive	a bike helmet not said here	the strap			tree rules
4	buckle	participle	the strap not said here				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	not protect	present · do-support	a loose helmet				vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:16.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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