--- title: Sand, mats and the foam in a helmet soften a blow by letting you sto… — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics description: Sand, mats and the foam in a helmet soften a blow by letting you stop more slowly. Who acts: Sand, you. A sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Reasoning about the body moving in the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/) / 17 # Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 17 Sand, mats and the foam in a helmet soften a blow by letting you stop more slowly. **Who acts:** Sand, you · **What happens:** soften, let, stop · **To what, where:** blow, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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 (Sand, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:17 # text = Sand, mats and the foam in a helmet soften a blow by letting you stop more slowly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 mats mat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 foam foam NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 soften soften VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 by by SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soften** | infinitive | Sand and mats | a blow | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | | 2 | **let** | gerund | Sand and mats *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stop** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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