Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 3

Nothing heavy can stop instantly: a car needs time and distance, and a heavy train needs over a kilometre, so the safest plan is never to be in the way.

Who acts: Nothing, car, heavy train, safest plan · What happens: stop, need, not be · To what, where: kilometre, way

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 (Nothing, car, heavy train, safest plan), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 stop	nsubj
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	4 stop	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 needs	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needs	nsubj
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	parataxis
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needs	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 distance	cc
12	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 needs	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 needs	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 train	det
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 train	amod
17	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 needs	nsubj
18	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 needs	conj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 kilometre	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 kilometre	det
21	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 needs	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 way	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	33 way	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 plan	det
25	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 plan	amod
26	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 way	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 way	cop
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 way	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	33 way	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 way	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 way	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	can	Nothing			instantly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	need	present	a car		time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	need	present	a heavy train	a kilometre			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	not is	present	the safest plan	the way			tree rules

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:3.

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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