How a car is built, sentence 11

Crash tests are why every seat has a belt and children need the right car seat or booster for their size, so the belt sits across them safely.

Who acts: Crash tests, seat, children, belt · What happens: be, have, need, sit · To what, where: belt, right car seat

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» 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 (Crash tests, seat, children, belt), 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	Crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tests	compound
2	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 why	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 why	cop
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 seat	det
6	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 why	advcl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 belt	det
9	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 need	cc
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 need	nsubj
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 has	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 seat	det
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seat	amod
15	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seat	compound
16	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 need	obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 booster	cc
18	booster	booster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seat	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 size	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 size	nmod:poss
21	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seat	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sits	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 sits	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 belt	det
25	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sits	nsubj
26	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 has	conj
27	across	across	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sits	obl
29	safely	safely	ADV	_	26 sits	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 why	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Crash tests		why property	tree rules
2	have	present	every seat	a belt		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Patient
3	need	present	children	the right car seat or booster	for children's size	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot seat=Theme
4	sit	present	the belt		across children = child; safely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:008-how-a-car-is-built.lesson:11.

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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