Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 5
In a crash the car stops suddenly but the people inside keep moving forward, and a seat belt stops them together with the car.
Who acts: car, people, seat belt · What happens: stop, keep, move forward · To what, where: crash, people
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, people, seat 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 crash | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crash | det |
| 3 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stops | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 car | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stops | nsubj |
| 6 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 stops | advmod |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 keep | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 people | advmod |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stops | conj |
| 13 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 moving | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stops | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stops | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 belt | det |
| 18 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 belt | compound |
| 19 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stops | nsubj |
| 20 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stops | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stops | obj |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 stops | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 car | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 car | det |
| 25 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stops | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the car | a crash | suddenly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crash=Location | |||
| 2 | keep | present | the people | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | move forward | gerund | the people not said here | forward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stop | present | a seat belt | people | with the car; together property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality with car=Subeventuality |
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:5.
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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