Swimming and cycling, sentence 15
A bike helmet's foam crushes in a crash so the brain is shaken less; it should sit level, about two fingers above the eyebrows, buckled snugly, and be replaced after a big crash.
Who acts: foam, brain · What happens: crush, shake, sit, buckle, replace · To what, where: crash, brain, level, eyebrows
This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine 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 (foam, brain), 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 foam | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 helmet | case |
| 5 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crushes | nsubj |
| 6 | crushes | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shaken | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 crash | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crash | det |
| 9 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crushes | obl |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 shaken | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brain | det |
| 12 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shaken | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shaken | aux:pass |
| 14 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 shaken | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sit | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sit | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sit | aux |
| 19 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 shaken | parataxis |
| 20 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sit | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fingers | punct |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 two | advmod |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 fingers | nummod |
| 24 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sit | conj |
| 25 | above | above | ADP | _ | 27 eyebrows | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eyebrows | det |
| 27 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fingers | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 buckled | punct |
| 29 | buckled | buckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 eyebrows | acl |
| 30 | snugly | snugly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 buckled | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 replaced | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 replaced | cc |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 replaced | aux:pass |
| 34 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sit | conj |
| 35 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 crash | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 crash | det |
| 37 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 crash | amod |
| 38 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 replaced | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crushes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crush | present | a bike helmet's foam | a crash | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shake | present · passive | the brain | less property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sit | should | brain | level | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location level=Theme | ||||
| 4 | buckle | participle | the eyebrows not said here | snugly property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | replace | infinitive · passive | brain not said here | after a big crash | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-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:medicine:042-swimming-and-cycling.lesson:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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