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title: In a crash the pull on a body is far stronger than any arms, so nobo… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a crash the pull on a body is far stronger than any arms, so nobody can hold a child or baby safely on their lap. Who acts: pull, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 19

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In a crash the pull on a body is far stronger than any arms, so nobody can hold a child or baby safely on their lap.

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**Who acts:** pull, nobody · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** crash, child, lap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» 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 (pull, nobody), 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:19
# text = In a crash the pull on a body is far stronger than any arms, so nobody can hold a child or baby safely on their lap.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc
23	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the pull on a body |  |  | a crash |  | than any arms; far, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | can | nobody | a child or baby |  | Arms's lap |  | safely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme on lap=Location |

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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.

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**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:19`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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