--- title: A seat belt holds your body to the seat in a crash, but only when it… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics description: A seat belt holds your body to the seat in a crash, but only when it sits in the right place: the lap belt low across the hips and the shoulder belt across the chest and shoulder, not the neck. Who acts: seat belt, belt. 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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, belt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:0 # text = A seat belt holds your body to the seat in a crash, but only when it sits in the right place: the lap belt low across the hips and the shoulder belt across the chest and shoulder, not the neck. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 lap lap NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 27 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 28 across across ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hips hip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 35 across across ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | a seat belt | your body | | a crash | | to the seat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Theme in crash=Location | | 2 | **sit** | present | belt | | | the right place | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | 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:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:0`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/21/) - next →: [In the car: seat belts, car seats and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/)