Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 1
A seat belt only protects you when it sits in the right place: the lap belt low across the hips and the shoulder belt across the chest and shoulder, never across the neck or behind the back.
Who acts: seat belt, belt · What happens: protect, sit · To what, where: you, right place
This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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 (seat belt, belt), 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 belt | det |
| 2 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belt | compound |
| 3 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 protects | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 protects | advmod |
| 5 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 protects | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 sits | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sits | nsubj |
| 9 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 protects | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sits | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 belt | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 belt | det |
| 16 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 belt | compound |
| 17 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | appos |
| 18 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 hips | advmod |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 hips | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hips | det |
| 21 | hips | hip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 belt | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 belt | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 belt | det |
| 24 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 belt | compound |
| 25 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 belt | conj |
| 26 | across | across | ADP | _ | 28 chest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chest | det |
| 28 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 belt | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shoulder | cc |
| 30 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chest | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 neck | punct |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 neck | advmod |
| 33 | across | across | ADP | _ | 35 neck | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 neck | det |
| 35 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hips | conj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 back | cc |
| 37 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 39 back | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 back | det |
| 39 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 neck | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 seat belt | you | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | belt | the right place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:1.
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 ×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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