Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★, sentence 16
A crumple zone at the front and back of a car is built to squash in a crash so the people inside are slowed more gently.
What happens: build, squash, slowed · To what, where: crumple zone, crash, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» 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: 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 zone | det |
| 2 | crumple | crumple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 zone | compound |
| 3 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 front | det |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 zone | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 back | cc |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 front | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 car | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 car | det |
| 11 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 front | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 built | aux:pass |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 squash | mark |
| 15 | squash | squash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 built | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 crash | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crash | det |
| 18 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 squash | obl |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 24 slowed | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 slowed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 21 people | advmod |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 slowed | aux:pass |
| 24 | slowed | slowed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 squash | advcl |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 gently | advmod |
| 26 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 24 slowed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 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 | a crumple zone at the front of a car and back | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | squash | to-infinitive | a crash | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in crash=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | slowed | present · passive | the people | gently property | tree rules |
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:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:16.
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. 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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