Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 12
A cyclist's helmet softens a knock to the head, and bright clothes and lights help drivers see the cyclist.
Who acts: helmet, bright clothes, drivers · What happens: soften, help, see · To what, where: knock, drivers, cyclist
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 (helmet, bright clothes, drivers), 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 cyclist | det |
| 2 | cyclist | cyclist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 cyclist | case |
| 4 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 softens | nsubj |
| 5 | softens | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knock | det |
| 7 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 softens | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knock | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 help | cc |
| 13 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 clothes | amod |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 help | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lights | cc |
| 16 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clothes | conj |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 softens | conj |
| 18 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 help | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cyclist | det |
| 21 | cyclist | cyclist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 softens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soften | present | a cyclist's helmet | a knock | to the head | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knock=Patient | |||
| 2 | help | present | bright clothes and lights | drivers | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent driver=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | drivers not said here | the cyclist | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cyclist=Stimulus |
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:12.
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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