Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 7

ABS anti-lock brakes notice when a wheel stops turning and skids, and release and press the brakes many times a second so the driver can still steer.

Who acts: ABS anti-lock brakes, wheel, driver · What happens: notice, stop, turn, skid, release, press · To what, where: brakes

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 (ABS anti-lock brakes, wheel, driver), 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	ABS	ABS	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 brakes	compound
2	anti-lock	anti-lock	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brakes	amod
3	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 notice	nsubj
4	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 stops	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wheel	det
7	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stops	nsubj
8	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	advcl
9	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stops	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 skids	cc
11	skids	skid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 turning	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 release	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 release	cc
14	release	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 press	cc
16	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 release	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brakes	det
18	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 press	obj
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 times	amod
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 press	obl:unmarked
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 second	det
22	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 times	nmod
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	28 steer	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 driver	det
25	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 steer	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 steer	aux
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 steer	advmod
28	steer	steer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 press	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 notice	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	notice	present	ABS anti-lock brakes			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stop	present	a wheel			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	turn	gerund	a wheel not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	skid	present	a wheel not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	release	present	ABS anti-lock brakes not said here			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer
6	press	present	ABS anti-lock brakes not said here	the brakes	time	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brake=Theme
7	steer	can	the driver		still	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:7.

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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