Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 9
The three-point seat belt was invented at Volvo in 1959, and the company let other carmakers use it for free.
Who acts: company, other carmakers · What happens: invent, let, use · To what, where: point seat belt, Volvo, other carmakers, company
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 (company, other carmakers), 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 | 6 belt | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 point | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 three | punct |
| 4 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belt | compound |
| 5 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belt | compound |
| 6 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 invented | aux:pass |
| 8 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Volvo | case |
| 10 | Volvo | Volvo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 invented | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1959 | case |
| 12 | 1959 | 1959 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 invented | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 company | det |
| 16 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | nsubj |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 invented | conj |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 carmakers | amod |
| 19 | carmakers | carmaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 let | obj |
| 20 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 use | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 free | case |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 use | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past · passive | the point seat belt | Volvo | in 1959 | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||
| 2 | let | past | the company | other carmakers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | infinitive | other carmakers not said here | company | for free | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme for free=Eventuality |
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:9.
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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