Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 14

A bike helmet should be snug, level on the head, just above the eyebrows, with the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect.

Who acts: bike helmet, loose helmet · What happens: be, buckle, not protect · To what, where: head, strap

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 (bike helmet, 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	6 snug	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 snug	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 snug	cop
6	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 level	punct
8	level	level	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snug	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 level	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eyebrows	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 eyebrows	advmod
14	above	above	ADP	_	16 eyebrows	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 eyebrows	det
16	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 level	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 strap	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 strap	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 strap	det
20	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eyebrows	conj
21	buckled	buckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 strap	acl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 protect	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 helmet	det
24	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 helmet	amod
25	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 protect	nsubj
26	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 protect	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 protect	advmod
28	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 snug	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 snug	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	should	a bike helmet			snug property	tree rules
2	be		a bike helmet not said here		the head	above the eyebrows and the strap	tree rules
3	buckle	participle		the strap not said here			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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