Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 13
It is a myth that a car can stop instantly: even the best brakes need time and distance.
Who acts: car, best brakes · What happens: be, stop, need · To what, where: myth
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 (car, best brakes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 myth | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 myth | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 myth | det |
| 4 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 stop | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stop | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stop | aux |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 myth | csubj |
| 10 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 9 stop | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 need | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 brakes | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brakes | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 brakes | amod |
| 15 | brakes | brake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 need | nsubj |
| 16 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 myth | parataxis |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 need | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 distance | cc |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a myth | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop | can | a car | instantly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | need | present | the best brakes | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:13.
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 ×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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