Bike helmets and roads, sentence 5
In a fall a helmet's foam crushes and spreads the force so less reaches the skull and brain.
Who acts: foam · What happens: crush, spread, reach · To what, where: fall, force, skull
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bike helmets and roads» 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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fall | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fall | det |
| 3 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crushes | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 helmet | det |
| 5 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 foam | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 helmet | case |
| 7 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crushes | nsubj |
| 8 | crushes | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spreads | cc |
| 10 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crushes | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 force | det |
| 12 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spreads | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 reaches | advmod |
| 14 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 reaches | advmod |
| 15 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spreads | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skull | det |
| 17 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reaches | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brain | cc |
| 19 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skull | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crushes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crush | present | a helmet's foam | a fall | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | a helmet's foam not said here | the force | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location force=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | present | a helmet's foam not said here | the skull and brain | less property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent skull=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:072-bike-helmets-and-roads.lesson:5.
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): no change. 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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