Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 1

A seat belt stops you together with the car and spreads the force over the strong bones of your shoulder and hips, which is why it saves lives.

Who acts: seat belt, belt · What happens: stop, spread, be, save · To what, where: you, force, strong bones, lives

This is a sentence of the lesson «Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe» of the physics 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	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 stops	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	4 stops	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 car	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 car	det
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spreads	cc
11	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stops	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 force	det
13	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spreads	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	17 bones	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bones	det
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bones	amod
17	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spreads	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 shoulder	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shoulder	nmod:poss
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bones	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hips	cc
22	hips	hip	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shoulder	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saves	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 why	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 why	cop
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stops	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saves	nsubj
28	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 why	acl:relcl
29	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 saves	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stops	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	present	a seat belt	you		with the car; together property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector you=Eventuality with car=Subeventuality
2	spread	present	a seat belt not said here	the force	the strong bones of your shoulder and hips		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent force=Theme over bone=Destination
3	is	present				why property	tree rules
4	save	present	belt	lives			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:physics:037-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe.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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