Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 9

An airbag fills with gas in a split second and slows your head more gently than the hard wheel; small children must not sit in front of an airbag.

Who acts: airbag, small children · What happens: fill, slow, not sit · To what, where: split, head, front

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 (airbag, small children), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 airbag	det
2	airbag	airbag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	nsubj
3	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 gas	case
5	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 split	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 second	det
8	split	split	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	obl
9	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slows	cc
11	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fills	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slows	obj
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 gently	advmod
15	gently	gently	ADV	_	11 slows	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	19 wheel	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wheel	det
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wheel	amod
19	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gently	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sit	punct
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sit	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sit	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 sit	advmod
25	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fills	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 front	case
27	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sit	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 airbag	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 airbag	det
30	airbag	airbag	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 front	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fills	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present	a airbag		split	second	with gas	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gas=Instrument
2	slow	present	a airbag not said here	your head			gently property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	not sit	must	small children		front of a airbag			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location

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:9.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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