Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 2
Cars are built to soften the stop: the front crumples slowly, an airbag puffs out in a split second, and a longer, softer stop means a smaller force on the people inside.
Who acts: front, airbag, longer softer stop · What happens: build, soften, crumple, puff out, mean · To what, where: Cars, stop, split, smaller force
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 (front, airbag, longer softer stop), 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 | Cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 soften | mark |
| 5 | soften | soften | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 built | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stop | det |
| 7 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soften | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 crumples | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crumples | det |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crumples | nsubj |
| 11 | crumples | crumple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | parataxis |
| 12 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 crumples | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 puffs | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 airbag | det |
| 15 | airbag | airbag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 puffs | nsubj |
| 16 | puffs | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 crumples | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 puffs | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 split | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 second | det |
| 20 | split | split | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 puffs | obl |
| 21 | second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 split | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 means | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 means | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stop | det |
| 25 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 stop | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 longer | punct |
| 27 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 stop | amod |
| 28 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | nsubj |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 crumples | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 force | det |
| 31 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 force | amod |
| 32 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 people | det |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 force | nmod |
| 36 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 35 people | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | Cars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | soften | to-infinitive | the stop | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stop=Patient | |||||
| 3 | crumple | present | front | slowly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | puff out | present | a airbag | split | out property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||
| 5 | mean | present | a longer softer stop | a smaller force | on the people | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Topic |
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:2.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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