Bike helmets and roads, sentence 7
A helmet should sit level, about two fingers' width above the eyebrows, with room for about one finger under the buckled chin strap; pushed back, it leaves the forehead bare, and many falls land on the front of the head.
Who acts: helmet, foam, many, falls · What happens: sit, buckle, push back, leave, falls, land · To what, where: width, forehead, front
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 (helmet, foam, many, falls), 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 | 2 helmet | det |
| 2 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | aux |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | level | level | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sit | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 width | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 two | advmod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 fingers | nummod |
| 9 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 width | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 fingers | case |
| 11 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | obl |
| 12 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 eyebrows | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eyebrows | det |
| 14 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 width | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 room | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 finger | case |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 one | advmod |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 finger | nummod |
| 21 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 room | nmod |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 strap | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 strap | det |
| 24 | buckled | buckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 strap | amod |
| 25 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 strap | compound |
| 26 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finger | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 pushed | punct |
| 28 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 leaves | advcl |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 pushed | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 leaves | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 leaves | nsubj |
| 32 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 forehead | det |
| 34 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 leaves | obj |
| 35 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 leaves | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 land | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 land | cc |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 falls | nsubj |
| 39 | falls | falls | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 land | nsubj |
| 40 | land | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 leaves | conj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 front | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 front | det |
| 43 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 land | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 head | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 head | det |
| 46 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 front | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | should | a helmet | two fingers's width above the eyebrows | level property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | buckle | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | push back | participle | foam not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leave | present | foam | the forehead | bare property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Theme | |||
| 5 | falls | many | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | land | present | falls | the front of the head | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on front=Destination |
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:7.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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