Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 6
A car cannot stop instantly; even at 30 miles an hour it needs several car-lengths, and more on a wet road.
Who acts: car · What happens: not stop, need · To what, where: several car lengths
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 (car), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stop | advmod |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 stop | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 miles | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 miles | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 miles | case |
| 10 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 miles | nummod |
| 11 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 needs | obl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 miles | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 needs | nsubj |
| 15 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | parataxis |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lengths | amod |
| 17 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lengths | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 car | punct |
| 19 | lengths | length | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 needs | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 more | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 more | cc |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 needs | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 road | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 road | det |
| 25 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 road | amod |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 more | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | can | a car | instantly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | need | present | car | several car lengths | at 30 miles a hour | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot length=Theme |
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:6.
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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