Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 18
The front and back of a car are crumple zones, built to squash in a crash and take up energy so the people inside are slowed more gently.
Who acts: front · What happens: be, build, squash, take up, slowed · To what, where: crumple zones, crash, energy, people
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 (front), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 front | det |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 zones | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 back | cc |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 car | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 zones | cop |
| 9 | crumple | crumple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 zones | amod |
| 10 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 zones | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 squash | mark |
| 14 | squash | squash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 built | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 crash | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 crash | det |
| 17 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 squash | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 squash | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 take | compound:prt |
| 21 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 27 slowed | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 slowed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 24 people | advmod |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 slowed | aux:pass |
| 27 | slowed | slowed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 take | advcl |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 gently | advmod |
| 29 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 27 slowed | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 zones | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the front of a car and back | crumple zones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | crumple zones not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | squash | to-infinitive | a crash | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in crash=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | take up | infinitive | energy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | |||||
| 5 | slowed | present · passive | the people | gently property | 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:technology:018-car-safety.lesson:18.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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