Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 10

In a crash, sensors set off a small charge that fills a nylon airbag with gas in less time than a blink, bursting out with great force, and then it quickly empties.

Who acts: sensors, small charge, airbag · What happens: set off, fill, burst out, empty · To what, where: small charge, crash, nylon airbag

This is a sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology 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 (sensors, small charge, airbag), 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 set	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 crash	punct
5	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 set	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 charge	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 charge	amod
10	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fills	nsubj
12	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 charge	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 airbag	det
14	nylon	nylon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 airbag	compound
15	airbag	airbag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fills	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 gas	case
17	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fills	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fills	obl
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 blink	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 blink	det
23	blink	blink	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fills	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bursting	punct
25	bursting	burst	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 fills	advcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 bursting	compound:prt
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 force	case
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 force	amod
29	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bursting	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 empties	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 empties	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 empties	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 empties	nsubj
34	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	35 empties	advmod
35	empties	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 set	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	present	sensors	a small charge	a crash			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition charge=Patient
2	fill	present	a small charge	a nylon airbag		time	with gas; than a blink	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent airbag=Patient with gas=Instrument
3	burst out	gerund	a small charge not said here				with great force	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	empty	present	airbag			then	quickly property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

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:technology:018-car-safety.lesson:10.

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. 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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