Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 2
Modern cars are built to protect the people inside: the belt holds you, the airbag cushions the head, and the front of the car crumples on purpose to slow everyone more gently.
Who acts: belt, airbag, front · What happens: build, protect, hold, cushion, crumple, slow · To what, where: Modern cars, people, you, head, purpose, everyone
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 (belt, airbag, 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 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cars | amod |
| 2 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 protect | mark |
| 6 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 built | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 protect | obj |
| 9 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 8 people | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 holds | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 belt | det |
| 12 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holds | nsubj |
| 13 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 holds | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cushions | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 airbag | det |
| 17 | airbag | airbag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cushions | nsubj |
| 18 | cushions | cushion | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 holds | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 head | det |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cushions | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 front | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 crumples | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 front | det |
| 24 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crumples | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 car | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 car | det |
| 27 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 front | nmod |
| 28 | crumples | crumple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cushions | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 purpose | case |
| 30 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crumples | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 slow | mark |
| 32 | slow | slow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 crumples | advcl |
| 33 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 slow | obj |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 gently | advmod |
| 35 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 32 slow | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | Modern cars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | the people | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | hold | present | the belt | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cushion | present | the airbag | the head | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | crumple | present | the front of the car | purpose | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | slow | to-infinitive | the front of the car not said here | everyone | gently property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient |
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:2.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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