Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 8
A seat belt locks if the car suddenly slows or the belt is pulled fast, and it is worn on every trip in every seat, across the chest and hips, not the neck or tummy.
Who acts: seat belt, car · What happens: lock, slow, pull, wear · To what, where: belt, car, trip
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 (seat belt, 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 | 3 belt | det |
| 2 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belt | compound |
| 3 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locks | nsubj |
| 4 | locks | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 slows | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slows | nsubj |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 slows | advmod |
| 9 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 locks | advcl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 pulled | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 belt | det |
| 12 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pulled | aux:pass |
| 14 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 slows | conj |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 pulled | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 worn | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 worn | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 worn | aux:pass |
| 20 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 locks | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 trip | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 trip | det |
| 23 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 worn | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 seat | case |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 seat | det |
| 26 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trip | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 chest | punct |
| 28 | across | across | ADP | _ | 30 chest | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 chest | det |
| 30 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 worn | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 hips | cc |
| 32 | hips | hip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 chest | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 neck | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 neck | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 neck | det |
| 36 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chest | conj |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 tummy | cc |
| 38 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 neck | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 locks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | present | a seat belt | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | slow a condition, not said to happen | present | the car | suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pull | present · passive | the belt | fast property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wear | present · passive | car | every trip in every seat | across the chest and hips and the neck or tummy | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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:8.
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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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